Summer is officially over. Shannon's back to school, I'm in my 4 Fantasy Football leagues, the Broncos won their first game, and all is well.
BUT, before we start blogging about recent events, we must recap our fantastic Summer Europe Trip '07!
So, Shannon finished her first year of teaching 2nd grade, and a week later was on a flight to Scotland. I couldn't take a full month off work, so Shannon ditched me and left a week before I did to get some good time in with her sister Holly, brother-in-law Luke, and our beautiful new nephew Isaiah, who live in St. Andrews, Scotland. I arrived a week later and we all had an amazing time.
Luke even hooked me up with 18 holes of a golfer's dream:
When then said our goodbyes and hopped a flight to Paris for three nights. The people weren't the friendliest, but we had a great time seeing the sights.
While in Paris, we got to spend some time with our friends, Eric and Meredith.
After eating too many croissants, we made our way to Venice, Italy.
Then, it was off to Florence by train to meet up with our friends: Toobie (Dave) and Emily.
Then a quick stop in Pisa:
And then off to Cinqueterra - absolutely amazing. I can't believe this place truly exists. The hike between the 5 towns took all day and was very intense...but incredible:
We then made our way south to visit Pompei at the bottom of the famous volcano: Mt. Vesuvious.
Rome was our final stop with the Machts before saying our goodbyes.
Shannon and I hopped a small flight to Athens...
...and then to the island of Santorini a few days later - where we finally found some time to relax.
Our trip ended back in London for 3 days, where we enjoyed speaking English, seeing Mary Poppins the musical, and all the fish and chips we could eat!
After it all, we were excited to get back home to our normal routine, which is exactly what every good vacation should accomplish.
I realize I way over-did this first major post...but I had to get it all out. Our life is now back to normal!
8 comments:
Yeah! I am happy you two have a blog-even though I see you two-it is still fun to read your blog-I am a bit obsessed these days with reading blogs! The pics look great!
What an amazing trip! Please send us your itinerary! We would love to go there next summer...
Hope all is well with you guys. Miss you!
you make-a me jealous...sounds like an awesome trip!
that was a looooong post. . .but it was awesome!
I'm glad to see you "made out" in Venice :)
Hey guys! I'm really excited to find your blog! It's great to keep up with far away friends this way! I'm glad you had fun in Europe. I'm so jealous! Filipe and I keep saying how next time we go to Portugal, we have to travel around and see other sites. Seeing your pictures makes me want to do it that much more!
Jenn Nunes
Olá amigo! Your good old Portuguese friend! You guys look great in the pictures, and so do all those places! I need to take Jenn on a trip like this. All those years in Portugal... so close.
well look at this! It's like a portugal reunion!
David, I got painfully itchy reading your blog and it made me remember why we don't talk. haha, jk.
Looks like you had a fun time in Europe! Hope you guys are doing well!
Andrew
hey guys! i found you through filipe and jenn. it's good to see that you are doing well and having a terribly fabulous life that leads to visiting oh so many friends that you have in europe. just one thing though.. no portugal??? what happened there? you didn't want to take a stroll through memory lane? andre, jenna, and i will be going there this november we are so excited. glad i found you
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