Posted by MaryB (Staffordshire, United Kingdom) on 15 October 2007 in Architecture.
Hello everyone we're back, very exhausted after 10 days of touring down the to the west coast of Italy and back by bus! We started off from the Midlands at 3.30am on Friday the 5th October and visited the following places, Brussels Belgium, Saturday Switzerland and over the Alps via the San Gottdard pass (in fog!!) Sunday on to the Spa town of Fiuggi Italy, (our base for 4 days) On Monday we went to the City of Pompeii, Tuesday Rome, Wednesday Naples and the Isle of Capri, Thursday we travled to Montecatini, and a day in Pisa, Friday morning we left and traveled through Switzerland to Dijon in France. Saturday we traveled to the beautiful city of Paris. Sunday we left Paris to Calais and onward to home arriving at 7.30 pm on the 14th October!
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Welcome back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like a very very exciting trip!!!
15 Oct 2007 8:57am
@rainsocks: Thank you rainsocks :) It was the most amazing journey, we are so exhausted but really happy to have seen such amazing places!
BUONGIORNO PRINCIPESSA !!! ....and WOW did you ever come back with a BANG !!! HOLY COW is this an AWESOME shot !!! Bravo-O-O-OOOOOOO !!
15 Oct 2007 9:01am
@Me , Myself & I: Millie Grazie Roberto :D I've seen sooooo many amazing places in the last 10 days my head is in a spin :D LOL, I ate too much pasta, drank too much wine, and had way too little sleep! :)
Quite a haul! Hope you enjoyed it!
15 Oct 2007 9:11am
@Wolfgang Prigge: Oh yes! Wolfgang we have had an amazing time!! I've seen places I've only dreamed of. We got very little sleep but it was worth every minute :)
What a TRIP Mary!! Fantastic photo today! Love it!!
15 Oct 2007 9:19am
@Bron: Thank you hun :) It was awesome! I've never seen so many beautiful places in one trip! we are totally exhausted but it has been more than worth it! We ate too much pasta, drank too much wine, and had hardly any sleep! so it's good to be back for a rest :D
Welcome back MaryB! Missed ya! But it sounds as if the trip was filled with all kinds of cool stuff. This is a great capture. A dumb American question -- what is this Atomium in Brussels? It kind of reminds me of the big geodesic ball at Epcot Center, Disneyworld.
15 Oct 2007 9:29am
@Viewfinder: Thank you VF, I've missed being here but it was an amazing whirlwind journey, thats for sure :D we did get to see some amazing sights, the highlight was the Vatican City and St Peters Basilica. It was more than I could take in! this is the Atomium, it was made for the 1958 Expo, I think it is supposed to be an atom but not too sure, we've had so much information told us I wish I'd written a journal of everything we did :) http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j135/snow_flake58/P1070836.jpg
Neat shot Mary! Sounds like you had a great time.
15 Oct 2007 11:22am
@Stunner: Thank you Stunner :) In my whole life I've never seen so many amazing places. I realised a childhood dream too and visited Pompeii in Italy, such an awesome city.
Sounds like an AWESOME trip Mary - I do hope we're going to see your awesome pictures from those idyllic sounding places!!!
This one is very interesting - I can't wait to see more! :)
15 Oct 2007 11:24am
@Mandy: Mandy, it was Awesome!! to see so many amazing places in one trip was mind blowing! although it has been a dream since a small child to visit Pompeii Italy, the most fabulous place was the Vatican City and St. Peter's Basillica in Rome! (I have taken a short video which I'll put the link to when I post the pictures) It was such an emotional visit, first thing I did, when we walked through the doors was cry I was so overwhelmed LOL :D
Aaaaaah you came to Belgium! And did you like it? I was 18 when I saw the atomium the 1st time! I lived in country side and I never went to brussels before. After that, I lived in Brussels for 3 years, not so far from the Atomium. I hope you liked my country! Atomuim was build for the "expo 58", an universal exposition (brussels' world's fair). There is museum inside. For a long time, we didn't know if we would keep it or destroy it. Finally, Belgium would have been too sad to unbuild it and decided to renovate it.
15 Oct 2007 12:02pm
@Sophie: YES! Sophie it's such a beautiful country :) I've been to Ostend a few times and really love it, but it was the first time in Brussels, it is such a beautiful city! We only had a short time to photograph here, and then we went to our hotel. We spent the evening in Brussels the square is soooo very beautiful the architecture is amazing!
Very powerful picture, I hope it will give you the strength needed to recover from this experience! I also hope you made enough pictures because it will give you opportunity to re-experience and process what you saw in your mind.
15 Oct 2007 12:04pm
@Illuci: Thank you dear Erik :) I took 649 pictures LOL :D but I could have taken more :) we forgot our video camera!!!! a really big mistake! It has to have been the longest journey we have taken in a bus, all the way from the middle of England, down to Naples in Italy, stopping on the way there and back in various hotels. We didn't get a lot of sleep but we saw such a lot, it was worth it :) The highlight was the Vatican City and St Peter's Basillica, I was sooooo overwhelmed by sight that met my eyes as I walked in, it would be difficult to put it into words. The Pope was in residence and held an audience the day after we were there! so we missed it! But it is something I'll never forget.
WOW! What a trip, and what a nice shot here! Lucky that you are well back!
15 Oct 2007 1:52pm
@Michael: Thank you Michael :) I'm glad were back safe and sound, it was a very long journey, I think that we traveled around 5 and a half thousand miles in 10 days! not sure what that is in Km. But it was Amazing! :)
Welcome back! What an adventure Mary!! I love this image-it reminds me something out of a science fiction movie! Great lines and close up :-)
15 Oct 2007 1:54pm
@Lost Valley View: Thank you LV :) It was the most amazing trip we've ever taken! and we saw some of the most fantastic sites and cities in the countries we visited! I've put a link on my reply to Viewfinder so you can see what all of it looks like and the scale of it too! :)
WOW, that really sounds a cracking schedule, and this is an absolutely cracking return image!! A very warm welcome back, dear Mary!! We've definitely missed you! :)
15 Oct 2007 3:14pm
@Rebecca: Awww thank you Rebecca, it's soooo good to be back! :) I think that we've had the most amazing journey, seen some absolutley beautiful places, and had soooooo little sleep! LOL :D it's good to be back for a rest!
Wow, wow, wow, fantastic capture Mary! Amazing schedule you had, another wow for that!! ;-) :-)
15 Oct 2007 3:59pm
@Markus: Thank you Markus :) We traveled about 5 and a half thousand miles in 10 days!!!!!! we ate too much, drank too much, (Italian wine is lovely) and had not nearly enough sleep, it was hard going but such great fun :) we traveled with 45 other people who were all lovely :) we were sad it came to an end but are really glad to be home :)
I am stunned, what shall I say, stunned, this is ethereal!!
15 Oct 2007 4:01pm
@Markus: Awww thank you Markus, if you look on my reply to Viewfinder, a bit further up, I've put a link to a picture of the all of it :)
Welcome back. I hope you had a wonderful vacation. A fantastic shot. I'm looking forward for your other holiday pictures.
15 Oct 2007 4:32pm
@Harald: Thank you dear Harald :) We have had the most amazing time! I've seen some of the most beautiful sites in Italy and other parts of Europe, that up till now have been only a dream. I have taken lots of pictures! :) I only wish we had taken our video camera too! I will catch up with your photos tomorrow, I've not had much sleep these past 10 days! so it's an early night for me tonight :)
Nice perspective!
15 Oct 2007 5:43pm
@badala: Thank you badala :)
So glad you're back!!!!! Talk about a whirlwind tour... whew!!! You must be beyond exhausted!!! AND this is a way cool image!!! Really love the pov!! You can get such interesting abstracts from architecture. Can't wait to see more... especially Pompeii!!
15 Oct 2007 8:39pm
@amy: Thanks Amy :) Will be posting 3 pics from Pompeii on Thurs, Fri, & Saturday :) We are totally exhausted, I don't think I've ever been this tired in my life! but so very happy at the same time :)
I'm glad you liked it!
17 Oct 2007 1:00am
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