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May 26 2023
Getting ready. Printing itineraries. Downloading travel apps. Figuring out how to pack.
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May 31 2023
Made it through security, waiting to begin boarding. Feels like it’s going to be a long day 😂🤞
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Jun 08 2023
Photo dump from Bath, England 🏴 & surrounding areas
On the Eurostar en route to England
On the Eurostar en route to England
On the Eurostar en route to England
On the Eurostar en route to England
At the “Tube” station in London
English countryside
English countryside
English countryside
Opie and Vanna enjoying the flowers in our backyard in Bath
Grandma and Opie enjoying some sunshine in our Bath backyard
Books! Julia and I probably could have spent an entire day in here
Outside Bath Abbey. We toured this in later photos
On the double decker hop on/ hop off Bath city tour bus
In Hawaii this means rat-lung-worm disease but apparently here it means something else (hopefully)
Playground in Bath, Vanna’s favorite part was the zip line
Enjoying a sunny afternoon in Parade Park, next to the river Avon. “Avon” means “river” in old English so the name means “river river”
More in Parade Park
Opie enjoyed Parade Park too
Amazing views all over this city (parade park still here)
Old books! I expanded my collection at this store from presidential biographies to include biographies of Kings and Queens.
On the bus to Stonehenge
Julia’s future home?
Beautiful English countryside em route to Stonehenge
On the next bus at Stonehenge
Stonehenge!
Vanna loves Ravens 🐦⬛
Apple juice is better in England 🏴
Beautiful swans with their babies in Bath
River Avon
Roman spa from when England was ruled by the Romans
Lots of street performers take shifts outside of Bath Abbey and the Roman Spa. I was impressed with a few.
Roman coins that were thrown into the spa as an offering to the gods. Some soldiers threw in the equivalent of a full month’s salary (one large denomination coin), which indicates their strong belief in the blessing associated with their offering.
More coins found during excavation of the site. Over 12,000 coins here found here and more are still found around the area
The Spa. The water is geothermically heated. I would guess it is probably about 80°. We could not feel this water as it is not treated but they had water from the hot spring available for us to drink.
Thai food in Bath
Starbucks in England does NOT have the same flavor as Starbucks in the USA. Roshena threw away her mocha it tasted so bad (I choked mine down for the caffeine value)
Old English flag inside the Bath Abbey
Bath Abbey
Bath Abbey stained glass, each piece tells a story
America! I’m Bath Abbey
Great looking people on the streets of Bath 😍
Don’t shit in the cab unless you have a spare £100
“Sham Castle”, built by a wealthy man who had a house on the other side of Bath and had a view of this hiill from his front window. He built this “sham castle” to have a view from his front window.
Shayla and Opie in “Sham Castle’s” front yard, Bath England in the background
The Bolings at Sham Castle
View of Bath from Sham Castle
Zoomed in
Sham Castle panorama
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Jun 10 2023
York, England
Today we spent the day in York. We started the day off with coffee and pastries from the bakery accross the street from our rental, then headed over to rent a boat and go up & down the main river through town.
After that we saw the York Castle, one of the oldest castles in England, took a double decker bus tour, and toured York Minster, a very old church with a very deep history.
It was a quick stop! Off to the next destination in just a few hours.
York city walls
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Jun 12 2023
Aberdeen Scotland- today we went to Balmoral Castle (owned by the royal family) and explored the Scottish countryside
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Jun 14 2023
We had a brief stop (just one day) in Edinburgh. It was a great place with lots of history.
Leaving Aberdeen- several times we have had to take two cabs
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh
Train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh
Streets of Edinburgh
We found Ro-Ro’s tea shop!
Haggis Bon Bon’s
Good Prosecco
Hop on/hop off bus
Hop on/hop off bus
Hop on/hop off bus
This lady bug flew down from above and landed on me. Good luck?
And Vanna wanted to hold it
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
The guy who invented chloroform, making it possible to have surgery without being tied to a table and cut open
Julia held our ladybug friend too
Edinburg’s concert hall
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
Edinburg castle
At the train station, heading off to our next destination!
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Jun 17 2023
We spent the last few days in London. We saw the changing of the Guard, cruised the River Thames, went on The London Eye Ferris Wheel, went to The Natural History Museum, explored The Tower of London & saw the Crown Jewels, Caden got a hole in one, it was a great trip.
We found out that today is King Charles’ birthday so they had the whole city in party mode- jets and the whole 9 yards.
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Jun 20 2023
Rome Countryside
Tomorrow marks the halfway point in our journey. We decided this would be a good time to unplug and have no schedule. We rented a van and drove about an hour outside of Rome to a secluded countryside property overlooking a beautiful crater carved lake, dubbed “Italy’s best kept secret” and frequently visited by Italians. Almost nobody here is fluent in English, there are no souvenir shops, no postcards, very few foreign tourists. Today we met a guy from California who heard our “American accent” and asked us where we were from. He has lived in the little town close by for a couple of years. Other than that, no Americans. We did seen a couple from Britain in the grocery store (didn’t talk to them but heard the accent). I don’t think we saw any other foreigners. Only Italians. It has been an interesting experience being in a place where nobody speaks our language and the few who do are spotty at best. It’s kind of cool. I learned “Ciao” (kind of like Aloha- they use it as a greeting and a goodbye), and “para inglese?”- (do you speak English), to which the response mostly was a sideways wave of a hand to say “kind of”. I also translated my grocery list at the store to Italian so that way I could get pointed in the right direction for the items I was looking for. We figured out how to communicate with each other though, which has been kind of fun. Kind of like a game of foreign charades. I found out early here that starting off my interaction with the Italians in their language goes a long way in obtaining useful, helpful information, probably because they view my gesture of a few words in Italian as a sign of respect. The Italian people are very friendly and helpful. So far, with the exception of spiders and bugs at our VRBO (there are A LOT here), and some bad smelling room spray that was set up on automatic spray every 36 minutes in each bathroom (we spent the first half of the visit wondering why the bathrooms smelled so bad and keeping the door shut and window open until we finally figured what it was), but other than that Italy has been awesome. We’ll see how we feel about it after we’ve been to the tourist areas and on the trains. 🤞🤞 for a good experience.
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Jun 23 2023
We came to the city of Florence expecting to go on a tour of wine country and the leaning tower of Pisa, but decided to cancel the tour and rent a van to make things easier with the small children in our family. It was a good decision. We went to Pisa, Caden, Roshena, Vanna and I climbed the tower, and then we went exploring and found the small town of Lucca that has mid evil city walls still surrounding the city and charming shops and restaurants galore. It’s not a tourist trap, mostly locals visit here. We loved it. It’s the hands down favorite city of our trip and the girls enjoyed shopping at shops where the dress makers make the dresses and clothing at the shops, crafting one of a kind, high quality, reasonably priced clothing.
The next day we were planning on going to see Michaelangelo’s “David” statue, but the line to use our pre-purchased tickets was fantastically long, and the sun scorching down on us, so we skipped that museum and went back to Lucca for more shopping. It was a great day.
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Jun 26 2023
We had a great time in Venice. As far as beauty goes, this place takes the cake by a long shot. We rode through the grand canal, did a tour of St Mark’s Basilica, saw Doge’s palace, toured a glass factory, and went to lots of neat little shops. We love Venice!
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@#onefastnana Have a great trip
@#1981 Great job on the packing info!