Kyle’s European Adventure

Mishaps and sordid tales.

Entries from July 2008

Cruisin’

July 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, we’ve been on the cruise ship for 3 days now, and I think if I could stay here forever, I would. This is the most brainless form of travel ever invented – I just eat, sleep, drink, and occasionally show up for tours.  You don’t really get to see much of the cities you [...]

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Copenhagen Gives Me Fever

July 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Well, um, I seem to have entirely missed Copenhagen. Whoops.
Our last night in Prague, we had dinner close to our apartment because rain looked to be a sure bet. And, halfway through our last meal in the Czech Republic, it really started to pour. We all made the dash back home, but I still managed [...]

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Prague at Night

July 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Well, our Saturday tour was an out of town excursion – we hired a car and a guide to take us to Kunda Hora, home of the famous Bone Church. Our guide, Marek, was a charming and talkative local, who not long after our car left Prague, informed me that he had spent and entire [...]

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Germany, Austria and Prague!

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

After a highly eventful second day in Hohenschwangau that involved mountain bikes, unchecked border crossings, horses, cows, slides, one castle, a monastary and a spectacular lightning storm – it was time to leave the land of the fairytale castles. The kids (everyone but my parents) decided to take an early morning dip in the alp [...]

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Neuschwanstein, Day One

July 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well, after our jeglagged day in Munich, we all got about 12 hours of sleep. Once we all felt human again, we made our way to the train station and caught the early train to Füssen, the mountain town at the base of the Alps. We were off to see the castles of the Bavarian [...]

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