What We've Done

Another post looking back on our two years in Europe ...

The pushpins below represent cities we've visited. (As we've traveled, I've been tracking our positions; on my copy of Google Earth, zooming into any of these pushpins will go to the building we stayed in. If you want the .kmz file, I can email it to you.)


We've visited several places in the UK as well.


Since July 2006 we've handled the following currencies:

• British Pound Sterling
• Canadian Dollar
• Czech Republic Koruna
  
• Danish Krone
• Estonian Kroon
  
• Euro
• Norwegian Krone
• Swedish Krona
• US Dollar

We've learned enough key phrases to order coffees, say hello, please, thank you, and count to three in French, Italian and German.

I've had several beers in the places they've been brewed:

• Guinness in Dublin
• London Pride in London
• Skullsplitter Orkney Ale in the Orkneys
• Nessie Ale in Loch Ness (literally! on a boat)
  
• Bath Ale in Bath
• York Ale in York
• Greene King in Bury St Edmunds
• Adnams in Southwold
• Brugse Tripel in Brugges
• Carlsberg in Copenhagen
  
• Paulaner and Spaten in Munich
• Staropramen, Krusovice, and Pilsener Urquell in Prague
• Sahti beer in Helsinki
  

(And I've pointedly not had Newcastle Brown in Newcastle, San Miguel in Barcelona, nor Budweiser in Prague.)

We've stood before thousands of works of art, including

• David, Michaelangelo
  
• Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci
• The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dalí
  
• The Scream, Edvard Munch
• Venus de Milo

One or more of us has stood before, if not toured, each of these places ...

• Casa Mila
  
• The Chrysler Building
  
• The Colosseum
• The Eiffel Tower
  
• The Empire State Building
• The Gherkin
• Guggenheim Museum
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa
  
• Lloyds Building
  
• The Louvre
• Notre Dame Cathedral
• The Pantheon
• Park Guell
  
• Pompidou Centre
  
• St. Paul's Cathedral
  
• St. Peter's Basilica
• La Sagrada Familia
  
• Scara Brae
• The Statue of Liberty
  
• Stonehenge

In terms of music ...

• Sarah and I toured the Beatles Museum in Liverpool
• I visited Abbey Road and saw the studio building and zebra crossing
• I visited Windmill Lane in Dublin
• We've seen traditional Irish music in Dublin
• I've brought back hard-to-find Bel Canto CDs from Norway
• and Hooverphonic from Belgium
• We've heard choral music in Westminster and Ely cathedrals

We've learned to navigate and taken rides on trains and transit all over Europe:

• Barcelona Metro
  
• Deutsche Bahn in France, Germany and Austria
• First, UK
• The Glasgow Underground
• Great Western, UK
• London Underground
• Metro Roma
• Munich U-Bahn
  
• National Express, UK
• Oslo T-bane
  
• Paris Metro
• Prague Metro
  
• ScanRail in Scandinavia
• Stockholm Metro
• Trenitalia in France and Italy
• Vienna Metro
• Virgin, UK