Spring 2008
3/20/08
(or in Europe: 20/3/08)
I’m very excited!
Anyone who has spoken to us in the past few weeks knows we’re about to take a trip to Europe.
Jenn is very excited!
We haven’t done a BIG trip abroad since our Southeast Asia journey in 2002:
http://southeastasia2002.blogspot.com/
Though I did a week (and Jenn just a long weekend) in Amsterdam in 2005, and we had a wonderful time, it didn’t quite qualify as a BIG TRIP ABROAD!
Ok, Jenn actually did a big trip abroad last year in England with her sister, but I wasn't on that trip, and this is a subjective blog.
We’ll at least be posting photos, updates, and perhaps a rambling or two of the trip via this blogspot. If we have the time and inclination, we’ll even add musings!
For those of you who might follow the trip,
And ESPECIALLY for any of you who will be in Europe and might wish to join us in any of the following cities, here’s our basic itinerary:
Mar 23
arrive London 3
Mar 24
Staying in York. Yes, we came from a York, but this is THE York, old York!
Mar 26
“I’m going to Edinburgh”
Yes, there’s only one person who will possibly remember that reference, and she might not even read this blog entry.
C’est la vie
C’est la guarre
C’est la plaisanterie intérieure
In Edinburgh, we’ll be staying with a friend of Jenn’s from High school!
London again for an evening on Mar 29
Mar 30, we’ll be chillin’ on the grocht!
An evening in Amsterdam!
Yes, I know we’re coming from New Amsterdam, but this is OLD Amsterdam!
And we’ve been there before, which is why we don’t mind just spending an evening there.
Mar 31, we’ll be in Hamburg! Watching our old “International Clowns” friends Hidden Shakespeare
http://www.hiddenshakespeare.de/
do a big show at the Schmidt Theater
Here’s when our schedule starts to get vague:
Sometime around April 4 or 5, we’re off to Berlin. We’ll be mostly tourists in Berlin, but we’ll certainly be checking out some of the Berlin Impro Festival:
http://www.improfestival.de/2008/index.php
Sometime around the April 6 or 7, we’ll go to Prague.
April 8, or 9 or 10… ish
It’s Munich!
Some more Germany in that time frame, probably Stuttgart.
We have to be back on schedule by April 14, where I’ll be teaching improv workshops with the company Eux, as well as the Improfessionals.
On April 17 it’ll be a public workshop with The Impro Academie, open to whomever is interested:
http://www.improacademy.com/
I’m also performing on April 16th with the improfessionals on a boat in Paris.
Yep,
A boat!
http://www.abricadabra.fr/index.html
After Paris, we’ll be eating and drinking in the countryside, around Dijon!
By April 24th. We’ll be back in London and thereabouts, until our 5/1 return to the Big Apple
NEW Amsterdam
NEW YORK CITY!
Now I have to go get packin'.
Literally, it's time to put clothes into my new backpack!
Have I mentioned that we're very excited?
5 comments:
Aside from wishing you a happy journey, I have a strong desire to recommend all sorts of things in which you most likely have no interest, and don't stand a snowball's chance of seeing. Shall I proceed? Oh, why thank you!
While you're in London, make a detour to Chatham to see where the Dutch cut out the Royal Charles in 1667. While you're in York, drive just seven miles east to see the site of the Battle of Stamford Bridge, and contemplate how Harold Hardrada's invasion probably affected the outcome of the Battle of Hastings a few weeks later. While you're in Amsterdam, visit the Scheepvaart museum and see the stern piece of the Royal Charles. Visit the Rijksmuseum and wonder over Vermeer's brush strokes. While you're in Paris, visit the Dutch wing of the Louvre and marvel at the assiduousness of the still-life painter Abraham Mignon.
There. I got that out of my system. I feel much better, thanks.
Hugh (and everyone)
We're more than happy to have people offer suggestions and reccomendations, then we'll either folow them ... or not.
Yes, ancient politics slash war IS actually interesting to me, and Jenn tolerates my interest.
Thanks for the heads ups. See you guys this spring.
RR
wheeee!
(i have no useful suggestions).
In the last posted photo of you both looking happy, Jenn looks "jennuinely" happy. Rob, however looks as though someone has shoved an inappropriate object where the sun don't shine. A little whiskey should remedy that.
Wishing you both happy trails, and I am decidedly jealous!
xo
I'm wondering if Pat knows about the whiskey trick from her veterinary experience or from personal experience, but will refrain from going beyond offering this musing.
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