Mon., 10/31/16 – Porto – Happy Halloween!
Judith arranged for us to have coffee at an outdoor cafe while we talked to two graduate architecture students from the Porto University. We could ask them about anything we were interested in and they were very outgoing with their answers. We spent an hour learning their views on several issues. Nothing was earth shattering or even unique from the situation of most students in the EU.
Tues., 11/1/16 – Porto to Frankfurt to Denver to Estes Park
We left for the airport at 3:30 AM and boarded our Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt at 6:05. We had time in Frankfurt and then flew Lufthansa to Denver and got to Estes Park at 7:30 PM. We were in bed by 8 PM!
Both trips were very good. It was fun to see several of the places in Italy that we had been last year and to be able to catch a couple that we missed, i.e., the Duomo Museum in Florence and the Borghese Gallery and the churches with the Caravaggio paintings in Rome. The Northern part of Spain, especially the Basque region, was beautiful and the Bilbao Guggenheim worth the price of the trip. We got just enough of a taste of the Douro Valley, which is also beautiful, to decide not to do a trip devoted to that one area.
As always it is very good to be home again and almost time to begin to look forward to an Alaskan Cruise in June and the August Africa trip to Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia. 2018 is in the early planning stages, as well.
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