Travel

Here’s the video from our day, starting with an argument between our driver to the Eiffel Tower with someone on a motorcycle. I don’t speak French, so I don’t know what, exactly, they are saying…

We took the Chunnel— it was a 2-hour trip. It left from London St. Pancras Station and ran to Paris Gare Du Nord. We stayed near the Odeon stop on the Metro in the  6th arrondissement. Wikipedia: The 6th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements (administrative districts) of Paris, France. It includes world famous educational institutions such as the École…

Today at the Tower of London, I learned more viscerally about the fear of Catholics that has driven English history. The jewels were crusty. Here’s a video of the day:

Tonight we went to Bibendum, a restaurant in London housed in Michelin House, “commissioned by the Michelin Tyre Company Ltd as their first permanent British headquarters in 1909, has been a favourite London landmark for many years”. Shawn-Laree and I encountered the place when we were in London a couple years ago. We loved the building, and…

I just got back from a couple of weeks vacation con my fambly. One thing I am big on is documentation— I love to capture, annotate, and publish the simple facts of existence. I do this with journals, images, and video. One thing I like to do when we’re on vacation is pull all this together…