Our new blog

Hi! I set up this blog to chronicle our adventures in Europe and Morocco this summer.
Our itinerary is:
Munich, Germany
Provence, France
Andalucia, Spain for 5 weeks
Marrakech, Atlas Mountains and western Morocco
Paris, France
Amsterdam, Netherlands
There will also be some side trips.
We takeoff 5 days after school is out.
This is my first blog, bear with me!

Comments

  1. BASTRONIXJune 14, 2018 at 9:50 AM

    You look sensational and OLD, Amonte. Be sure to taste all the tastes and smell all the smells. They have children’s beer in Germany!
    Please have your mom take a picture of you and Mateo for my phone. Always say “ Danke” to everybody. 💞

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

week 2

Image
Bonjour from Provence, in southern France! First, our last few days in Germany: We visited a palace in Munich, Schloss Nymphenburg. It was the summer palace for the ruling family. It has beautiful gardens, and lots of waterfowl, including tons of Canada geese, swans, and this Eurasian coot - check out his feet: Our last day in Germany, we went to Zugspitze in the Alps, the tallest mountain in Germany. It was quite cloudy, so we didn't get much of a view, but we were able to cross over to Austria briefly. There are glaciers and places to sled. The next day, we then took a long train ride to Avignon in France, where we rented a car and drove to an adorable town called Fontvieille.  We are renting a place with a pool, the boys are really enjoying that We visited Chateau Montauban in town  and then went to see the remains of a Roman aqueduct. The most amazing part about this is the aqueduct is just in a field near an olive grove, no museum, interpreti...
Read more
Image
Happy 4th of July from Spain! We are enjoying a quiet, firework-free day. I am way behind on posting, sorry about that. We have been moving a lot, but will be settling down now. In St. Remy, France, we visited Glanum, some Roman ruins discovered about 100 years ago: St. Remy is also the location of the St. Paul Monastery/Asylum, where Van Gogh went after the ear lobectomy to recover, it is also where he painted the famous Starry Night. Our last day in France, we went to Pont du Gard. This is an enormous bridge that was an aqueduct for the city of Nimes, which outgrew its water supply and needed to bring in water from 50 km away. It was built around the middle of the 1st century, and is one of the tallest Roman structures (160 feet) and also one of the most intact. Pictures don't really do it justice, because we had seen pictures and then when we turned a corner and saw it in person, we stopped and just stared at the size and grandeur of it. It has three rows of arche...
Read more

The halfway point

Image
Today marks the halfway point for our trip. I think we have some mixed feelings about that - Monte sometimes says he wants to go home, although that is mostly when he is upset about something. I feel like it has gone pretty fast, and though I miss some things, I am really glad we are doing this and am looking forward to the second half. I think Teo is mostly having fun but is sometimes a bit homesick. Jeff is enjoying it, but I think it might be wearing on him a bit. Anyway..... We are in Antequera, Spain for about a month. It is a town of about 45,000, basically right in the center of Andalusia in southern Spain, centrally located between Málaga, Córdoba, Granada, and Sevilla. Two years ago, the town suddenly became a tourist destination when it was named a UNESCO world heritage site. I read an article in the paper about how this has affected the town, and I think they have some growing pains related to this, since the locals aren't really used to tourists. The main reason th...
Read more