2022 European Adventure
When we both retired, we decided to tour Europe for 6 months
We started in Florence, Italy on May 25, 2022
Saw the Palio lottery in Siena
Explored Venice
Marveled at Milan’s Duomo.
(This was 2022, so I have a mask around my neck)
Overlooked Turin
Cruised down the Saône River in Lyon, France
Visited “Little Venice” in Colmar, France
The Ill River in Strasbourg, France
With son Brian and his wife Kelsey in Paris
Outside Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) in London
The Bridge of Sighs, Hertford College, Oxford
Fairy Glen, Betws-y-Coed, Wales, U.K.
Leaving Holyhead, Wales, on the ferry across the Irish Sea
Gravediggers’ Pub in Dublin. Prior to this, I hated Guinness and most beer
With son Jeff and his wife Britany, near Galway Bay
With son Joe, his girlfriend Shawna and son Chris in the Aran Islands
In Kinsale, Ireland
We spent a monthat our farm house in Gort, Ireland
Looking at the Firth of Forth from Bo’ness, Scotland
90 year old man dancing at a Scottish pub in Inverness.
The Clide Arc in Glasgow
With my cousin Kate and her friend in the Lake District, England
The hill district near Sheffield, England
The Queen is dead; long live the King
Mont-Saint-Michel, France as viewed from a cottage where we stayed in Vains
Our friends Lynn and Scott walking with us on the trail from Monterosso to Vernazza in Cinque Terre, Italy
We stayed at this agriturismo in Tuscany, Italy
My first Neopolitan pizza, ordered in Neopolitan style: no sharing pizzas!
Daring fate in Pompei (Is Mt Etna smoking in the background?)
Sunset in Slano, Croatia
Returning from swimming in the Blue Cave near Dubrovnik, Croatia. To get inside the cave, you have to swim to the rocks, then swim underwater.
Dining on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey, looking at the Asian side
On the Culinary Backstreets food tour, the males prepare to eat little fishes whole, heads and all while the females pretend to eat the fish.
View from the roof of the apartment where we stayed in Athens, Greece
Our last day trip outside of Athens was to the Temple of Poseidon (on the hill)
We returned home on Nov 16. We asked ourselves “If not for Thanksgiving, could we have stayed longer?” We both agreed “Yes!”