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Thread #69037 Message #1237168
Posted By: black walnut
30-Jul-04 - 11:29 AM
Thread Name: black walnut visiting Europe
Subject: RE: black walnut visiting Europe
I promise, MG! Sorry about that; we had a fast drive down from Muenster to beyond the Rhinefalls, barely stopping for gasoline! Munich was out of the question.
Here's a promise I can fulfil now. I was asked to give a summary of the trip. Here is a VERY brief outline:
- Munster Cathedral, university, Peace Hall, more churches, walking, shopping - castles - raclette - beer with strawberries - too much whipped cream - Lincoln Cathedral, Castle (the Magna Carta) - Stratford-on-Avon, Cornish pasties - Lincoln Ghost Walk - Cambridge - toured the university with a student friend of ours - London - met Micca at the Harry Potter station - with Micca to Cutty Sark, under the Thames, Grenich...... - stayed with Liz, Paul and Phoebe - St. Paul's Cathedral - sung eucharist, lunch at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Millennium Bridge, Tower of London, The Lion (small Mudcat gathering) - with Micca and Khatt to Buckingham Palace for the changing of the guard - shopping with Khatt (Virgin Records!) - Liz (an amazing cook by the way) drives (on the wrong side of the road!!!!) to Stanstead - back to Muenster, down to Switzerland - walk on Dievolezza glacier and fall in crevace (one leg only, so I was retrieved) - visit Guarda and Alvetern - The Devil's Bridge - Gotthard Pass (love the marmots!) - cows, goats, wildflowers, waterfalls - crazy drives through mountain passes (why don't these roads on cliffs have FENCES??????!!!!!!!) - more raclette - climb to fortezza - to Zug - fly back to Toronto from Zurich
That is SUCH a short and incomplete list. We did so many things and had SO MUCH FUN!