Showing posts with label Vimy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vimy. Show all posts

7 Oct 2015

Europe 2015

Here are some quick stories that I generated with pictures from the trip my friend Murray and I took to Europe at the end of June. It was ostensibly for a science conference in Paris, but that was only for a few days. The rest was sightseeing, walking, visiting war memorials, and touring the red light district in Amsterdam. 

Each story below is a link that should open in a new window - if that doesn't work for you, I have pasted the text link below each picture. You can click on it or copy/paste it into your browser to zip over to Google's new photo service.

All the photos are in roughly chronological order within each "story" (a fun feature of the new Google Photos app), except where I had forgotten to change the time zone with my camera... I can't seem to change the order of pictures within the story, but I hope that this will be a feature added to the app in the future. 

Enjoy!














Bonus story!!!




29 Jun 2015

Juno, Belgium, and Amsterdam

Our main focus today was the Vimy memorial. Incredibly powerful spot and well worth the visit. 


We took in the tunnels and the trenches and were very surprised by how pockmarked the landscape was after 98 years or so.  Huge craters everywhere.



There are several Canadian cemeteries in the area as well.

We took the car back but spent close to an hour driving around downtown Lille looking for the rental company. No signs anywhere! We finally found it then arrived to find them closed for a 2 hour lunch...  typical. Luckily they opened 10 minutes before we had to board our train. No problems, no stress.

The trains were fantastic - getting us to Brussels in about 20 min for a brief layover. We had enough time for a geocache and a quick picture of this (very) public urinal.


We arrived in Amsterdam, checked into the fantastic hotel we had booked the went for a typical Dutch dinner.



Took a stroll through the red light district then went to bed - only 22,120 steps on the fitbit.