After several days of slaving away over a hot computer I've managed to put together the map of this years adventure. As before, you can click on it for an enlarged version. You should also be able to open it in Google Earth for even more control over the view.
View 2009 Voyage - In France in a larger map
There are two pages in this version, the link to page two is at the bottom.
That will be all the posts for this year. I hope you enjoyed following along. We had a really wonderful time this year and are having a hard time not beginning the planning for next year now but really don't want to spend the next 7 months trying to hurry things along. Life is too short!
Odysseus
Our Barge, Odysseus
Saturday, October 03, 2009
The Return - Sept. 16
And just like that ... we're back in our other life.
The return went just as planned; we think we've gotten a handle on the train thing. The French TGV arrives in Paris at the Gare de Lyon, the Eurostar leaves from Gare du Nord. There's an underground RER (the system that travels to the Paris suburbs as opposed to the Metro which is just in the city) that only has a couple of stops between the train stations. The hotel we were staying in for the night was right by the Eurostar station so we wouldn't have to hike to far in the morning.
The Eurostar stops in St. Pancras station in London. Jump on the Picadilly Line of the London Underground and about an hour later you are deposited at Terminal 5 from which at the BA flights depart. The only hard part is getting from the LA Airport to Ventura. I think, per mile, that was by far the most expensive part of the trip home!
The front door key worked and, since we'd given the house a pretty good cleaning before we left, all that we had to do was collapse into bed to begin recovery from jet lag. Monday morning it was back to work for both of us.
The return went just as planned; we think we've gotten a handle on the train thing. The French TGV arrives in Paris at the Gare de Lyon, the Eurostar leaves from Gare du Nord. There's an underground RER (the system that travels to the Paris suburbs as opposed to the Metro which is just in the city) that only has a couple of stops between the train stations. The hotel we were staying in for the night was right by the Eurostar station so we wouldn't have to hike to far in the morning.
The Eurostar stops in St. Pancras station in London. Jump on the Picadilly Line of the London Underground and about an hour later you are deposited at Terminal 5 from which at the BA flights depart. The only hard part is getting from the LA Airport to Ventura. I think, per mile, that was by far the most expensive part of the trip home!
The front door key worked and, since we'd given the house a pretty good cleaning before we left, all that we had to do was collapse into bed to begin recovery from jet lag. Monday morning it was back to work for both of us.
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