Europe 2006

We spent 3 weeks in Europe, during the summer of 2006. We visited Italy, southern France, Germany, and Poland.

Italy

We spent our time mainly in Pisa with short day trips into the surrounding countryside including Cinque Terre, Chianti, and Lucca

• having a beer in Munich, Germany on our way to Italy
• stairway to a house
• a town in Cinque Terre (UNESCO World Heritage site)
• leaning tower in Pisa, Italy
• a street
• town of Lucca seen from a tower
• scooters
• a country house
• a house door
• an old window
• a small bouqet
• our empty wine glasses in a wonderful garden restaurant in the Chianti region of Tuscany
• an old door
• an old well in the cloisters of a monastery

France

As we were making our way to Nîmes, which is on the edge of Provence, we stopped in Nice and were bewitched for four or five days. We eventually made it to Nîmes and Montpellier.

• France
• a balcony with flowers
• a Roman aqueduct
• blue window shutters
• coffee with chocolate, which we enjoyed almost everyday
• Roman arena in Nîmes, and its top view
• boulangerie
• la maison Carrée in Nîmes, one of the best preserved Roman buildings in europe

Poland

Paweł's grandma is a wonderful lady with a lot to talk about and to show us. We spent a few days on her farm then visited Kraków and surroundings before heading home.

• weeding grandma's garden
• picking black currant
• view of Wrocław from the church tower where we were engaged
• Polish white eagle, at the Wawel castle in Kraków
• Wawel castle walls
• entry gate to Auschwitz concentration camp

Please note that this is only a SNEAK PEEK of our pictures from this trip. We will be posting more soon!

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