Europa 2014

Day 1/2 fly into Scotland

Arrive, get car, drive left-handed into the Edinburgh
Drinks while waiting for room.
Sleep, then down and up the Royal Mile
The Fringe!
Eat at the hotel

Day 3 - raining in Scotland

Fire alarm at 430am!!
Get up at 2pm!
Drive to Dunning and Duncrub
Over the Firth of Forth
Rollo Park
Hotel Pub - drinking whiskey or cooking whiskey?
St Serf's
Through Bridge of Earn
Drive to St Andrews
Swilcan Bridge (or Swilcan Burn Bridge)

Day 4 - tramping Edinburgh

Wake up late (again)
Breakfast at Princes Street
Tickets for Tatoo
Some shopping - no Niketown in Edinburgh!
Scottish Whiskey Experience
A drink At World's End
A Fringe Event - "Brave and Free: Traditional Tales of Scotland"
Spa

Edinburgh Military Tatoo

Day 5 - travel day to Paris

Glad to have spent the extra quid to get EasyJet+

Mad Hatter's Wild Ride to the Hotel

Walk through Jardins des Tuileries to Seine

Walk along Seine to Eiffel Tower

Random bistro

Walk along Seine to Concorde

Obelisk and Fountains

Day 6 - tramping Paris

Walk to Louvre

Spa

Le Grand Colbert

Big Event

Day 7 - tramping Paris

Figured out the velib system

Bikes up Champs Elysee

Niketown Paris

Bikes along Seine
The Pont Neuf!

Bikes to Notre Dame

Spa (again)

Day 8 - to the coast!

Palais Versaille - uh, maybe not

Wash some clothes - where's the soap?

Long drive to Normandy Island

Check in and walk along Omaha Beach

Great dinner - two bottles of Chardonnay

Day 9 - Rouen Cathedral

Best Croquet Monsieur

Notre-Dame Rouen

Rollon

William Longsword

Random anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian demostration

Day 10 - more Castles

Bayeux Tapestry

Chateau Caen

Chateau Falaise

Day 11 - travel day to Dublin

easiest time in CDG ever - fly out mid-day Monday!

extended "sightseeing" on way to hotel

Afternoon tea

sleep

Dinner

sleep

Day 12 - Ireland...all of it!

Dublin to Cork

-English market

-Bull McCabes for the best corned beef ever

Cork to Blarney

-kissed the stone! (great castle grounds)

Blarney to Limerick

-River Shannon is pretty dirty!

Limerick to Doolin

-The Cliffs of Insanity!

Doolin to  Galway

-Corkscrew Hill

Galway to Dublin

-15 hours, 900 kilometers

Day 13 - tramping Dublin

Old Jameson Distillery

St James Gate Brewery

Temple Bar

shopping, drinking, eating, foot-stomping

Day 14 - travel to US

6 hrs in Sky Club is tooo much

started at 7am Dublin time, ended at 1am (friday) Beaverton time