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. Just got back from Florida where Meaghan and I caught a couple of Red Sox’s Spring Training Games.
Here are some of the photos.

Here are my pictures from my weekend with Erin and Beth in Philadelphia, PA.  The three of us went to Philly to check out the city and check out Erin’s new apartment.  We got to check out the city, where Erin will be working and check out some cool restaurants.  We walked along the river, visited the stairs from the Rocky movie (the stairs at the Museum of Art),  walked along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, checked out the wall size tv screen at the Comcast Center and walked along Market Street.

Meaghan & I are on vacation this week, up in Acadia National Park. We walked around downtown Bar-Habror, ME. And my phone is about to die because there is barely any Verizon signal, to send this.

For our final day on our Eurotrip we got up on the late side (7:45) and got everything packed up for hotel checkout.  We got some take-away breakfast at a nearby bakery and hopped the U-Bahn down to the Oktoberfest fairgrounds to check it out.  Read more »

For our third day in Germany we woke up at 5 AM and walked the 15 minutes to the U station, took the U to Hauptbahnhof where we caught the 6:52 train out to the Alps. Read more »

We picked up some breakfast take-away at a bakery on our 15 minute walk from the hotel to the U. We went to Schloss Nymphenburg on the U, which lets you off about a 25 minute walk from the palace. And of course, much as everything else, the palace was under construction. The rococo inside was beautiful, as was the rest of the interior. Read more »

On our first day in Munich we began with breakfast at an all day breakfast place, Cafe Altschwabing. We had some traditional German breakfasts; Will had eggs with pastrami, sausage and cheese, a pastry with spinach and cheese; I had muselli with milk, fruit, cheese and we shared a basket of bread. When then took a walk around Marienplatz, the city center. Read more »

We began our last day in Paris at the Eiffel Tower, which we walked to from the hotel (it was about 15 minutes away). We decided to go all the way to the top, but hadn’t planned on Paris being so cold on the ground, let alone up high. We then walked to the park across from the Eiffel Tower, Park du Champ de Mars, for some photos. Read more »

For our sixth day in France we booked a guided tour via a mini-bus (mini van) to the Loire Valley, which is about an hour and a half drive from Paris. It turned out that we were the only ones that had booked the tour, so we had our very own private tour. Our driver/guide was very knowledgeable about the history surrounding the castles/chateaus that we were visiting and gave us the history prior to reaching each site that we visited. Read more »

For our fifth day in France we decided to take the train to Versailles to see the palace and gardens. We got there shortly after the palace opened and had to stand in line for tickets, then stand in an even larger line for ticket holders to actually go into the palace. We toured around the state apartments and chapel in the morning; then after a quick bite to eat in the cafe (we hadn’t had breakfast yet) we went to the dauphin and Mesdames Apartments.

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