{"id":843,"date":"2005-02-22T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2010-05-13T20:37:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T01:37:05","slug":"europe-part-ii-the-final-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"europe, part II — the final countdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s my first reasonably slow day at work in a couple of weeks, hence the avalanche of photos. Here are some of the ones I didn’t think were worth sharing back when I posted the first batch<\/a>–in other words, here are all the ones with me in them…heh.<\/p>\n

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Glass windows at Dulles in D.C.<\/p>\n

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Aaron and I working hard unloading the car…<\/p>\n

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The remains of airline meals…surprisingly not that bad. Maybe they roll out the good stuff for international flights?<\/p>\n

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Our hotel room in London was very small. We’re still very jetlagged at this point and getting ready to venture out into the city.<\/p>\n

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A London gang sign I picked up at Paddington station. Actually…vertical space is a very important quality to me in a home. Or a hotel room.<\/p>\n

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Paris now. Dorothy and I sitting on the steps at Sacr\u00e9 C\u0153ur watching the pigeons poop on tourists.<\/p>\n

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Ivy in Montmartre.<\/p>\n

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Pubs and side streets.<\/p>\n

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The real Moulin Rouge. It actually looked like a reasonably classy joint, if the aspect of the folks lining up to get in was any indication.<\/p>\n

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Waiting to meet up with friends outside the subway station before dinner.<\/p>\n

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Tourism is big business in Montmartre.<\/p>\n

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Germany. I took lots of pictures in the Porsche museum, but I’ll spare you all but two. The little cube of metal above, given the right amounts of coolant, oil, and fuel, will crank out 450 hp on command. That’s cool to think about.<\/p>\n

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There was a car with its bodywork cut in half. Aaron and I ogled it for a good while.<\/p>\n

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The Mercedes-Benz museum now. The reason I’m showing you this car is because it was the Pope’s limo.<\/p>\n

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The Pope used to sit there. Whoa.<\/p>\n

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Near Interlaken in Switzerland on the way to Lauterbrunnen. Mountains and water.<\/p>\n

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Another view whilst hiking in Lauterbrunnen.<\/p>\n

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An alleyway in Como, Italy.<\/p>\n

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Flowerboxes and shutters in Italy. Imagine living in one of those apartments.<\/p>\n

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At the helm of our trusty Euromobile. The car performed remarkably well, even in spite of getting backed into a gate in France. But that’s a whole other story…<\/p>\n

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Do you ever just want out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s my first reasonably slow day at work in a couple of weeks, hence the avalanche of photos. Here are some of the ones I didn’t think were worth sharing back when I posted the first batch–in other words, here are all the ones with me in them…heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,41,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}