Category Archives: Museum

Seattle Day 1 – Geek Toys and More Planes

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Andrew Coates

We’d arranged to meet the Clarkes one last time in Seattle for a trip to the Museum of Flight, somewhere I’ve been meaning to go in Seattle for some time but have never got around to. We’d arranged to meet … Continue reading →

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Seattle Day 0 – The world’s biggest building

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Andrew Coates

After we left the Clarkes, we drove down the I5 to the biggest building in the world (by volume), the factory where Boeing manufactures (or, more accurately, assembles) its wide-bodied aircraft, the 747, 767, 777 and 787. We’d booked a … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh Day 2 – Castle, Catacombs and Camera

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Andrew Coates

OK, I’ll admit to taking a little license with the subtitle for the sake of alliteration, there were no catacombs, but they were underground (I also considered crypt), but of this, more later. We started with a cooked breakfast (fried … Continue reading →

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Barcelona Day 2 – Too Much Gaudi is Never Enough (Part 2)

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Andrew Coates

In Part 1 of this post, I covered the morning and lunch of our day of Gaudi. Immediately after lunch, we walked back up to Plaza Catalunya to join the Gaudi tour. There was some jostling for the front seats … Continue reading →

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Barcelona Day 1 – Up and Down and Up and Down

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Andrew Coates

On Monday morning, we jumped up and got ready to leave Paris. We caught the train to Orly and thence 2 planes to Barcelona. On Dad’s advice, we avoided the Metro and instead caught the Airport Bus to its terminus … Continue reading →

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Florence Day 2 and on to Venice

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Andrew Coates

After our Pisa trip, we got back to our hotel promptly and then lazed around for just too long and missed the start of our tour to the gallery that houses Michelangelo’s David. The tour company were pretty good about … Continue reading →

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Off to Venice

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Samantha Coates

Now it seems like I’m just name-dropping. But we really REALLY are off to Venice! It’s 2:30pm and the train just left, and we’ll arrive in Venice at 4:50. Apparently we then have to catch a boat to where someone … Continue reading →

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Florence Day 1 (from Rome)

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Andrew Coates

For some strange reason, I quite like the mornings that we’re moving on to the next place. Rome was great, but there was something new coming and we had the prospect of quite a pleasant journey before us. The kids … Continue reading →

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Rome – Eternal doesn’t really begin to describe it

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Andrew Coates

  We got off the train on Tuesday morning and jumped straight into a taxi (well, after working out that the convention for queues here is that there is no convention – just grab a cab as soon as you … Continue reading →

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We LOVE siestas

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Samantha Coates

A fabulous invention, the siesta. Avoid the hottest part of the day by sleeping/relaxing, and get lots done in the mornings and evenings. But just as an aside, I have resolved to try to put some photos in my blog … Continue reading →

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