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Technical issues
The original intention here was to store photos using Google Picasa because I have no scrapbook space left on LJ. So I learned how to use Picasa effectively - and about 2 days into the trip I get an e-mail saying they're shutting down Picasa and it's all moving over to Google Photos - which is a pain to use. The last two posts have broken ( Read more... ) -
Best hotel award
We are staying at the Merceny Motel in Bastogne. Yes, this is a motel on the side of the road but don't think for a moment that it's dodgy. It's obviously very new and very modern ( Read more... ) -
*hums Band of Brothers theme*
Well the last two days have been the Normandy tours, the first focusing on the landings at Omaha and Utah beaches, the second focusing on the 101st Airborne (and the 82nd a little ( Read more... ) -
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Ugh I am tired. Lee is very, very late and we're a bit stressed out. :/
ANYWAY
Today we visited the three big museums in Bayeux as well as the cathedral. So I learned a few things -
- The cathedral is almost 1000 years old!!!! And it has 250 year old graffiti on it.
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Walking tour of Bayeux
It started with me walking to a nearby park I had identified on Google Maps. This took me alongside a small, slow river for a bit then I crossed a campground, followed signs back into the city, then took a wrong turn and ended up at the egde of the walking city part of town ( Read more... ) -
God bless the walking city
I just returned from a walk around Bayeux - I got a little lost because the blocks here are triangles not squares, so when I think to myself "oh I'll just go down here and then take the parallel street then join up on the next one that intersects the road I left" it doesn't work like that because triangles, and before you know it you are further ( Read more... ) -
It should be illegal to build cities so pretty
So many photos of Paris. You can't just take one photo of the front of the building because there are decorations EVERYWHERE and it's not like it's the same decoration repeated. A lot of the time they're all DIFFERENT ( Read more... ) -
Meet the sharks
You'll see a lot of these guys in photos over the coming days so here is an introduction -
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NEW BIRDS NEW BIRDS
Just went on a brief reconnaissance mission. Got Blackbirds, and Sparrows, and Feral Pigeons. *yawn* This feels like Adelaide.
And then I looked up - the official first bird of B2B is the COMMON SWIFT. The second is Wood Pigeon.
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Long haul fights SUCK
Honestly we were as comfortable as we could have been on an economy flight - but the dry, pressurised air in a plane means I CANNOT sleep properly. I functioned for 24 hours on just resting and snoozing for maybe half an hour at a time (and waking up gasping ( Read more... )
