Reportage on the goings on of Craighan
Notes on and photos from our 2018 sabbatical. From preparing to doing, this is what we've done so far.
Brussels is a big city – it’s the capital of Europe – but is often tagged as a boring city with not much to see or do. False! We managed to do a lot in the few days that we were there.
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I’ve long suspected that it’s oversold, so I’ve harbored an ambivalence about visiting Venice. But, given the long list of works in Venice that are on my “Art to See” list and the opportunity of this travel year and, we put it on the itinerary. It is, after all, not going to be around forever.
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The end of our journey is less than a month away, and I would be remiss if we didn’t write something about Ljubljana, because it was such a pleasant surprise.
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Time flies yadda yadda. Our two days in Cologne (“Köln” for you Teutophiles) hardly seemed like a blink.
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Art is not the only thing that Europe has to offer. There’s lots of old stuff, too. When we weren’t looking at art, we were delving into local history.
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We’d heard tales of the natural beauty of the region, so we added a two-day stop at Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes National Park to our itinerary.
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The Rijksmuseum is my second favorite museum (sorry, the Prado wins out, but it’s close), so I was a little more than excited to be able to give the folks a guided tour of some of the highlights of the Rijksmuseum. Unfortunately, it has a has a high volume of of great masterpieces, which makes paring down the tour to a manageable morning was a chore I didn’t relish, but I think we managed OK.
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This post was inspired by an exchange I had with a friend right before Meghan and I headed out to go sit on a beach here in Split, Croatia. To illustrate a bit what Split is like, I took a series of pictures over the 45 minutes we walked from our Airbnb to a beach in a Marjan Park.
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Mom & Dad arrived on a Wednesday morning, and after dropping luggage off at our apartment, we set out do some of the most Amsterdammy things to do – visiting Rembrandt’s house, shopping for tulips, and learning about canal houses.
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In April we played tour guides to Meghan’s parents, and in September we had the fun of dragging my parents around the Netherlands, Germany (Cologne), Belgium, and France. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll post summaries of that visit.
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