Home, Sweet Home!

I got back from my week+ European travels and am worn, but have had a wonderful time. I'll try to post some of the hilarity and things of note in the coming days/weeks. There were points during the trip when we weren't sure if things were complicated because we couldn't access the necessary information or if we were looking too intently for additional information. Everything worked out well, especially our plan to get going on the trip (armed with information about places to go and things to see) and handle decisions as it felt appropriate/necessary to make them. Ultimately, the trip ended up suiting our needs quite well. And Sandrine was a great travel buddy!

Here is a picture I took of us at the Manneken Pis fountain in Brussels, Belgium. It was the first of six attempts to capture us with the fountain (and, unfortunately the most successful despite lacking the statue's head). Sandrine finally asked someone to take our picture, but I find that misses the point and the stupidity of my feeble attempts. So I have included my first of many frustrated attempts for your viewing pleasure.

Basic information on the trip: Brussels, Belgium to Amsterdam, Holland/The Netherlands to Brussels, Belgium to Bern, Switzerland to Interlaken, Switzerland to Bern, Switzerland to Paris, France. We learned a great deal about the finer points of Eurail travel which we are contemplating putting into a small travel book, especially because the travel books we used did not provide some of the information we needed for/learned through our travels.