So close!! And yes, we are TIRED! By the time we land in Thessaloniki, it will have been about 27 hours from when we left our house on Tuesday. #europeanadventure #thessaloniki #greece
When you have a TEN hour layover in Munich, how can you not hit a Biergarten??
Greetings from the Königlicher Hirschgarten, where we had schnitzel and beer for a late lunch. There was a deer field nearby that you could visit.
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Off to our next adventure…heading over to see Tim!
Denver just started accommodating Airbus A380s earlier this spring and we are so excited to get to fly on one to Munich…
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Story time! I promised a bit about our AirBnB…I had to wait to go into detail until we resolved an issue. It’s been resolved to our satisfaction, so here we go!
Enjoy a sampling of some of the fun signs and foods I saw on our trip. The list of sodas is from the menu at a McDonalds in Exeter. Note there’s only one soda option that isn’t “Zero”. I was intrigued that even the sodas with sugar actually still have some artificial sweetener of some sort in it to keep the calories and sugars down.
Greenwich, the home of the Royal Observatory.
We arrived rather late, with only 90 minutes until we’d have to catch the last City Cruises boat back towards central London. There was only one thing I wanted to do in Greenwich: stand on the Prime Meridian. The map geek in me was thrilled to be able to put one foot in each hemisphere for a few photos. (Having taught cartography before, I fully understand how arbitrary and Imperialist the line is, but I digress.)
After the Churchill War Rooms, Dave and I grabbed a quick lunch and then headed to the nearby Westminster river pier to hop on a City Cruises narrated boat tour on the Thames. We could stop at some of the more popular photo locations on the way.
It took us to Greenwich and we learned quite a bit from the tour guide. It was a relaxing way to travel, with restrooms and a cafe/bar on board.
After the morning and mid-day at the British Museum, Dave and I spent the late afternoon at high tea at the Palm Court at the The Langham, London then headed over to Harrods to see what all the fuss is about.
The tea was spectacular and there was way more food than Dave and I could even finish. The sandwiches and pastries were absolute works of art.
We took a double-decker bus from the Langham to Harrods. It was fun to sit in the front row of the top level.
Pro tip — like the Louvre, get the free tickets into the British Museum for nice and early in the day.
Most guests aren’t bothering with the timed tickets anymore and had long waits to get in. Dave and I had nearly an hour almost to ourselves with the Rosetta Stone and Parthenon carvings before it got uncomfortably crowded.
The last photo shows how busy it can get with tour groups standing in front of exhibits for tens of minutes at a time.
We met a man decked out in Penn State gear in the Parthenon gallery — after all, it’s game day! — and we chatted for a while about the controversy surrounding Britain kinda helping themselves to all this stuff.
I don’t think I’ve seen a more-serious play like this since I was in high school. The Duchess is based on The Duchess of Malfi, a 1623 play by a Shakespeare contemporary: John Webster. Really really dark.
This play reimagines the setting into the 1950s, but most of the dialogue is preserved. The Trafalgar Theatre is a small intimate venue and I might have been fangirling a little at getting to see Jodie Whittaker perform live.
The theater is adjacent to Trafalgar Square, it was cool to walk around it at sunset just before the show.
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