Hello Everyone!! I hope you all are doing well on this almost spring weekend. Our whirlwind (hopefully) tour of the last year and a half continues on! I've blogged more in the past month than I have in the past year and a half, but it seems like catching up on everything to get us to the present day is going to take so long!! This morning I was looking through all of the great pics we have from the past year and a half and I'm not sure how I'm going to edit them down for the blog! I hope to have that figured out soon and that I keep moving this project forward as fast as I can!
Paris: Luxembourg Gardens
This is where we went when we first arrived in Paris and several times afterward as it was just down the street from our hotel. The flowers here were beautiful! This is just a small sampling of some of the beautiful landscape. We went running here a few mornings on our trip.
Here we are strolling across a bridge on the Seine before dinner on our first night in Paris.
This is the charming little restaurant we ate at on our first night in Paris.
Parisian culture is so fascinating!! Parisians just hanging out along the Seine. Probably a few tourists mixed in there too, but most seemed to be locals. Everyone was out enjoying the warm Indian Summer temperatures that year.
This is the cute little hotel that we stayed in during our visit to Paris: Hotel Louis II in the 6th Arrondissement.
Stuart and I ate a lot of "picnic" lunches during the day so that we could spend more on nice dinners in the evenings. This is a picture from our picnic lunch outside the Centre Pompidou modern art museum. Great people watching, fabulous scenery, delicious sandwiches, and cold beer!! Perfect!!
I'm holding the Eiffel Tower!! Wow!! This is actually about as close as we got to it. We decided to avoid the crowds and leave the close up views to the other tourists.
An untouristy thing we did: we visited a farmer's market one morning. The flowers were amazing. We had a ton of pictures from here of all of the fresh food, but I couldn't put all of them up here!!
Beautiful tomatoes!! This place made me wish that we had a kitchen while we were there!
The beginning of our journey to Capri: overnight train ride from Paris to Rome. Our seat/bed was "kaput" as described by our train steward. At the time I thought it was going to be a really big deal, that our seat wasn't going to stay up while we sat in our cabin, but it ended up not being an issue at all after we wedged a suitcase in between the top and bottom seats. Also, the seats were up for about 2 hours before they were made into a bed. Silly American.
Train cabin self portrait.
In front of the Colosseum on our 5 hour layover in Rome. I still think we looked pretty good after an overnight train trip! It was SO humid while we were there. We did a lot of walking and a lot of sweating!!
Enjoying another picnic lunch outside the engineering school in Rome. We had paninis and Peronis here, I believe.
Capri!! A beautiful, magical island off the coast of Italy near Naples and Sorrento. The whole entire place is like a postcard picture. It's almost like you're dreaming when you're there, it's hard to believe it's real!!
View of the pool at our hotel, La Minerva. Again, there were so many great pictures of the island and our views it was hard to edit them down!
Stuart and I at the top of an overlook.
Looking down!! Amazing blue waters, indescribable!!
Here we are at the bottom of the cliff after we hiked down.
La Fontelina Beach Club: we went sunbathing and swimming here one day. We were nestled in a little cove along the cliffs. It was an amazing setting!! There was also great people watching.
Sun soaked after a great day at the beach club and a wonderful time on Capri!!
