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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!

~b.w.