June 18th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
by george (Europe, Travel)
Everyone is asking us: Where are the pictures? Where are the blog posts? No good answer for either question. Since we took over 4000 pictures, we’ve decided that we’ll post each day separately instead of all at once. As for the blog posts, as we post the pictures there will be accompanying details about what we saw, where we stayed, and what we ate. Hopefully you’ll find it interesting.
But for starters, I’m posting this picture for my Mum and sisters. At the beginning of the trip, I was quickly reminded of the many road trips we used to take through Europe as kids with Dad. Lots of the things Brad and I saw in the past 2 weeks brought back so many fond memories. One being of the “baked bean” car. When I saw it zip past us, I yelled at Brad “Take a picture, take a picture!” and just started laughing. We loved those baked bean cars!
As we get back into the daily routine, we’ll be uploading photos and blogging. Stay tuned!
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June 11th, 2008 at 4:28 am
by george (Europe, Travel)
At the start of our trip, we took 2 flights on Lufthansa. One from LA to Frankfurt and one from Frankfurt to Athens. Both flights were painless and the LA to Frankfurt portion was really amazing. It was refreshing to be treated with respect on both these flights unlike other airlines we’ve flown.
We were only in Frankfurt for an afternoon and evening before we caught a flight the next morning to Athens.
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June 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
by brad (Europe, Travel)
The flight here was about as nice as a plane flight can be. We had good food and wine, a bed to sleep in, and plenty of space. We managed to sleep about 6 hours on the plane, and when we arrived it was around noon in Frankfurt.
We caught a cab from the airport (coincidentally driven by a guy whose family is from Crete) and checked into the hotel. We thought getting out and about would fend off the jet lag, but it was still pretty hard to stay alert.
Frankfurt itself is a fairly generic city; it could be easily mistaken for any large city in the US. We stumbled upon a street fair with lots of beer and food. The beer was really good, and the food wasn’t as bad as we’d been told. We had sausage, potato salad, and onion cake.
From there we walked along the river where there was another street fair and concert. By then we were exhausted and headed back to the hotel.
We both took am Ambien, but I was only able to sleep for four hours. It’s now 4am and I’ve been up since around midnight. We have a plane to Athens at 9. Hopefully we can stay awake the entire day.
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