Skip to main content
Home
Blue Boat Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Travels
    • Arizona
    • Battle Creek (1997)
    • Ben's Bike for Balance (2002)
    • Europe 2016
    • Grand Canyon trip, June 2008
    • Hawaii (2003)
    • Italy
    • Japan (1993)
    • Las Vegas, June 2008
    • Mexico (1990s)
    • New Mexico (2000)
    • Savannah trip (2012)
    • Wheeled Migration (2004-05)
  • About the House
    • The Best Laid Plots
    • 10 lessons learned from rewiring our house
    • Electricity Consumption
    • In Sickness and in Health
    • We're moving to Nebraska!
  • Autoharp
  • Gardening
User account menu
  • Log in

Breadcrumb

  1. Home

Europe 2016

Content Map

By Ben, 3 October, 2016

Home via Paris

Sunday, Oct 2

We had breakfast at a patisserie since the corner café was closed on Sunday. We took the more direct train into Paris and stored our luggage in a locker in Gare de l'Est station. We then went to the Musee des Arts et Métiers, where we enjoyed free admission and lots of models, but we found most of the interactive exhibits out of order.

Tags

  • travel
  • Europe 2016
By Ben, 1 October, 2016

Versailles

See an album of our photos from Versailles.

Friday, Sept 30

We slept in, planning to visit a nearby Indian buffet for brunch, but it didn't open at 11am as advertised, so we had to check out of our hotel first, and we wound up returning to same café as the past two days, but this time we got the full breakfast with omelets!

Tags

  • travel
  • Europe 2016
By Ben, 29 September, 2016

Paris

See an album of our photos from Paris.

Tags

  • travel
  • Europe 2016
By Ben, 27 September, 2016

Belgium by Bus

See our photos of Belgium.

Tags

  • travel
  • Europe 2016
By Ben, 26 September, 2016

Friesland

See our photos from Friesland.

Monday, Sept 26

Jessie overslept in the morning due to a small army of gas-powered hedge trimmers in the condo complex drowning out her alarm! We still had time for a canal boat tour (included in our HollandPasses) before we caught the train to Friesland, a region in north Holland.

Tags

  • travel
  • Europe 2016
By Ben, 25 September, 2016

Nuenen

See our photos from Leiden and Nuenen.

Sunday, Sept 25

When I checked my email in the morning, I learned that our AirBnB host in Paris had been robbed! She canceled our booking, and I used the refund to book another room, but I did not thoroughly read the reviews. Cue ominous music.

Tags

  • travel
  • Europe 2016
By admin, 24 September, 2016

Amsterdam

See our album of photos from Amsterdam.

Friday, Sept 23

We had a lovely breakfast in the hostel featuring cold cuts, cheeses, and hard boiled eggs as well as fresh pastries (which I carefully avoided, just in case), cereal, and an espresso machine that made 10 different drinks perfectly.

Tags

  • travel
  • Europe 2016
By Ben, 22 September, 2016

Utrecht

Wednesday, Sept 21

We left Emporia around 7am and met Zarrin and Ziya Reynolds at a pet hospital where they volunteer, north of Kansas City. Zarrin came with us to breakfast while Ziya drove her car to work. Zarrin has been unemployed for 6 months after schoolteaching at a juvenile detention facility became too dangerous. After breakfast at Waffle House, she dropped us off at the airport and borrowed our car for the duration of our vacation.

Tags

  • travel
  • Europe 2016
Europe 2016
RSS feed

Footer message

All content of this site is copyright © Ben and Jessie Stallings. Please do not use without permission.

"Blue Boat Home" is the name of a UU hymn by Peter Mayer, about how we are all travelers on the Earth. We have his permission and blessing to use the name for this site.