Today was our first full day in Paris and we commence the day with a bus tour taking us around most of the major sites and looking out the window at the arch de triumph and Notre Dame. We continued on around the city and got our bearings and the general feel for the areas that we might like to return to later. My first impression was the sheer scope and breadth of Paris. This was one of the largest cities that we have visited to date. My first impression was tha...

We leave Amsterdam behind as I blog again on the train to Paris. Amsterdam is the first place we truly moved onto Europe time. We found ourselves for the first time feeling normal about eating dinner at 10 in the evening. We spent our second last day doing a clogs cheese and windmills tour ....the new threat to fitness for Maui swim fitness is cheese consumption. A session in the gym and a good swim in the bath tub size pool tied to the ladder should help. Yest...

Amsterdam has been great so far. We started off with an orientation by city tour to get our bearings. On our first evening we decided to try the Indonesian restaraunt and have the traditional Rice Table. We enjoyed the restaraunt and the linkages to the colonial past. We moved on to the Heinikin bar and after some people watching we went back to a Salsa club we had spotted earlier and enjoyed the atmosphere and dusted off our lessons for a 2 AM return to the ...

So now for a final update on Prague'.Prague was both our slow down and hang out place. The city itself is the attraction rather than lots of activities. What was memorable was lunch on the square with Ket ,the theme picture for this blog and a beautiful dinner cruise on the river. This was one of the most special nights I have had in a lifetime with dinner for 2 in a beautiful wooden boat. Lovely food and wine and good service and a romantic land scale surroundi...

Now for an update on our first full day in Prague. As has been our continued good fortune the sky was blue and the day hot with a prevailing cool breeze. We did a Prague in one day tour starting with a coach ride around the city to be followed by a walk around Prague castle. The tour stopped for lunch on the walk down at a lovely restaraunt with expansive views over the city. All the terracotta roofs reminded me of Sydney in the old days. We made our way down to...