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In the Summer of 2000 I spent about two
weeks in Europe:
  
  England
  4 days in London
  1 day in Bath
  1 day in Glastonbury
  1 overnight in Salisbury (for Stonehenge)

  France
  5 days Paris

Met my parents in Atlanta airport
to fly together to London (Gatwick airport).

After a week in England we took the
"Chunnel" from London to Paris.

Then, after about a week in Paris, I
flew out of Charles de Gaulle airport back to
the States while my parents went on down
into southern France for another week or so.

More coming soon (more pictures, etc.
as soon as I can get them scanned)...

  
  We really weren't trying to look French! Mom's wearing an ordinary visor (but which is up high to not hide her face for the picture); I'm wearing a British hat (not a beret!) which I bought on Carnaby St. (London) and Oakley sunglasses. Somehow in this picture it appears as if we were trying to look French, but no this is not the case!  

 

  
     Catacombs - Paris
 
        S   k   u   l  l  s !

     
    WebMuseum - The Catacombs

     More Catacombs Pictures (not mine)

  

Here's me down in the catacombs of Paris, which are literally lined with the bones of millions. They built these "walls" using leg bones and arms bones etc. as if they were ordinary stones, and even placed skulls in certain ways to make patterns (as seen here). This is deep down underground, very dark, very much a lengthy maze, and frankly one of the most unusual places I've ever been in my life. Not necessarily on the beaten path, thanks to my buddy Neal Thompson at NCR for the pointer!

 

skulls 
close-up 

  

     

 ( Our Paris hotel:  Les Jardins du Trocadero )

 




       Glastonbury, England



Me and dad at the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian
church in the world.
 		        


close-up of sign

       Glastonbury

       The Abbey

 
       
          one of our many tickets
           for London Underground
In the pub...                  
  Local girls Lori & Linda in a pub in the small town of Woking, about a 35-minute train ride from downtown London.  


          Abbey Road Studios
 


Me at the Abbey Road sign adjacent to the most famous "zebra crossing" in the world (see below). Abbey Road studios was immortalized by the Beatles in their album of the same name

This is just outside London in the city of Westminster 		 
    Street sign covered with Beatles fans' graffiti


The famous Beatles album        
    		  


While standing there at least three groups of 4 people came to stage a photo duplicating the famous album cover.		  


Random group of tourists replicating the famous photo. The studios are the white building in the
     background. (Looking very closely at the white
wall along the sidewalk you can sorta see
that it is also covered with graffiti.)




Stonehenge
 

(coming soon)

 


London Eye...                     




(coming eventually. . .)




Crash of the Concorde
  The day we arrived in London was the same day the Concorde crashed flying out of Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, i.e. the same airport I'd be departing from in less than two weeks (and in fact the same airline:
Air France).

About two weeks later, when I did fly out of Charles de Gaulle airport to head back to the States, I looked for the crash site from 12 days prior, but didn't manage to see it. (It was perhaps sufficiently cleaned up by then...?)
 

  
   
 
     Read more about the crash

 		  















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