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London
We got up and had a good breakfast. The wireless internet access isn’t working – oh well. Anyway, we got out and walked over to the St. Pancras station – its one of the oldest rail stations left in London and is being refit to be the end of the Channel Tunnel line. We then […]
May 11th, 2004 by alephnaught
London
We got up early and started figuring out what we want to do while we’re in London. I think we’re going to the National Gallery today and to Bath on Friday (a day trip!). Breakfast was okay – they had hard-boiled eggs, some cheese, croisants and cerials. We managed to get cleaned up and going. […]
May 10th, 2004 by alephnaught
Arriving in London
We ate, got cleaned up and rode out the airport. We had an inconsequential flight to London – the good news is that the plane was actually spacious. We took the high speed train from Heathrow to Paddington Station (15 minutes) and got a cab to our hotel. The weather is just wonderful – we’re […]
May 9th, 2004 by alephnaught
Cabbing around Dublin
We woke at around 7 – things typically don’t open on Sunday til around noon, so we don’t have to rush out of the hotel this morning. We ate an Irish breakfast (eggs, links, ham), showered, and got moving. We took a cab over to the Jewish Museum. Its in an old row house that […]
May 8th, 2004 by alephnaught
Arrival in Dublin
We got in on time even though the plane left an hour late. We picked up our bags and caught a cab to the hotel, the Best Western Royal Dublin– it was less than 20 Euros to get from the airport to the hotel. The room wasn’t ready so we went to the bar and […]
May 7th, 2004 by alephnaught
Flying to Dublin
I brought only two books for this trip: Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco, and Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments Of The 20th Century by Lauren Slater. We left way too early for the airport; security wasn’t a big deal. We’re flying Aer Lingus on the trip out. We had to check our […]
October 17th, 2003 by alephnaught
Flying home
We awoke early, showered and ate breakfast. Aviva checked out while I showered. We packed the last things and caught a cab – me to the airport, Aviva hopefully to the train station to go on to Florence for a week. The ticket counter for KLM in Bologna is on the lower level to the […]
October 16th, 2003 by alephnaught
Bologna
We awoke, showered, got breakfast and a cab to the center of Bologna. As we walked, we found Aviva's street! We then walked to Museo Ebriaca, which is located on the edge of the old Jewish Ghetto; this is a Jewish history museum that was funded and started by the non-Jewish community in Bologna to […]
October 15th, 2003 by alephnaught
From Siena to Bologna
We woke slowly today. We got breakfast and got out – we decided to go to the Pinacoteca de Siena, the painting gallery in Siena. No pictures and no catalog, so there's not much for me to do but say that the art is very interesting. Sienese art is very gothic. We drove to Bologna […]
October 14th, 2003 by alephnaught
San Gimignano, Monteriggioni and Siena
We woke up very early and had a shower and breakfast. Aviva’s legs and my back are still sore – just too much walking on stone surfaces for our old bodies I suppose. The weather for our trip has been superb, as its been in the 70s and sunny every day. Diet Coke is called […]
May 12th, 2004 by alephnaught