2024 Thistle Vacation Diaries

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Viewing my travel diaries as I intended: Except for the earliest of them, my diary pages are set up to display pairs of photos side by side, with text between, above, and below them. Because everyone's browser settings are different, they may not display that way on your screen. To view them as I set them up, narrow your browser window until the photos line up in side-by-side pairs and do not touch the ones above or below them. If you can't get that to work, try (in addition) adjusting the size at which text is displayed on your screen. In my browser, that's control-"+" to increase the size or control-"-" to decrease it. Good luck!

The postcard versions are the short accounts I emailed home each day to a group of friends. They download as Word files, which must then be opened.

SPRING: Prague to Berlin with Viking, then touring with colleagues

FALL: Paris on our own, then Italy with Tauck

Prague to Berlin with Viking, then touring with colleagues

Planning ahead
(Postcard version) Tuesday, 7 May, Tallahassee to Prague
(Postcard version) Wednesday, 8 May, The rest of the way to Prague
(Postcard version) Thursday, 9 May, Prague, Food
(Postcard version) Friday, 10 May, Prague, Much more Mucha and Operation Anthropoid
(Postcard version) Saturday, 11 May, Prague, panoramic tour, the Charles Bridge, the castle, folkloric dinner
(Postcard version) Sunday, 12 May, Jewish Prague, Děčín (Czech Republic), Bad Schandau (Germany)
(Postcard version) Monday, 13 May, Bad Schandau, the Bastei, and a concert at the Zwinger in Dresden
(Postcard version) Tuesday, 14 May, Dresden and the Elbe Valley
(Postcard version) Wednesday, 15 May, Meissen and Torgau
(Postcard version) Thursday, 16 May, Wittenberg, the Luthers, and the Reformation
(Postcard version) Friday, 17 May, Disembarkation, Potsdam, then Berlin
(Postcard version) Saturday, 18 May, Berlin, Panoramic tour and "A Taste of"
(Postcard version) Sunday, 19 May, Berlin to Merseburg to Weimar, with colleagues
(Postcard version) Monday, 20 May, Weimar: Cranach, Anna Amalia's library, and the Bauhaus
(Postcard version) Tuesday, 21 May, Weimar: Goethe and Schiller
(Postcard version) Wednesday, 22 May, Weimar: Its republic, the Wittums Palace, and nearby Erfurt
(Postcard version) Thursday, 23 May, Weimar to Potsdam (redux), inside Cecilienhof
(Postcard version) Friday, 24 May, Potsdam: Food and art
(Postcard version) Saturday, 25 May, Potsdam to Berlin: the Reichstag
(Postcard version) Sunday, 26 May, Berlin: Charlottenburg
(Postcard version) Monday, 27 May, Berlin: On a Spree!
Tuesday, 28 May, Berlin to Tallahassee

Paris on our own, then Italy with Tauck

It'll be a while before I get all the entries written up; you'll see each entry "light up" and become clickable as I finish and post it.

Planning ahead
(Postcard version) Monday, 9 September, Tallahassee to Paris
(Postcard version) Tuesday, 10 September, The rest of the way to Paris (the Ibis Paris Opéra Bastille)
(Postcard version) Wednesday, 11 September, Paris: Musée de Cluny, Jacques Faussat
(Postcard version) Thursday, 12 September, Paris: Marché Bastille, Atelier des Lumières, Pierre Gagnaire
(Postcard version) Friday, 13 September, Paris: Bocuse, the Louvre, David Toutain
(Postcard version) Saturday, 14 September, Paris: Lazy day, picnic lunch, Restaurant Anne
(Postcard version) Sunday, 15 September, Paris: La Terrace, Army Museum, Violon d'Ingres
(Postcard version) Monday, 16 September, Paris: Café Kleber, Maritme Museum, Le Chiberta
(Postcard version) Tuesday, 17 September, Paris: the Jacquemart-André, Chez Papa
(Postcard version) Wednesday, 18 September, Paris to Milan, Grand Hotel et de Milan
(Postcard version) Thursday, 19 September, Milan: La Scala, La Galleria, the Duomo
(Postcard version) Friday, 20 September, Milan to Stresa, Grand Hotel des Iles Boromées:
(Postcard version) Saturday, 21 September, Stresa: Les Îles Boromées
(Postcard version) Sunday, 22 September, Stresa to Verona, Due Torri Hotel:
(Postcard version) Monday, 23 September, Verona, Due Torri Hotel:
(Postcard version) Tuesday, 24 September, Verona to Bologna, Grand Hotel Majestic già Baglioni:
(Postcard version) Wednesday, 25 September, Bologna, Grand Hotel Majestic già Baglioni:
(Postcard version) Thursday, 26 September, Bologna to Venice, The Gritti Palace:
(Postcard version) Friday, 27 September, Venice, The Gritti Palace:
Saturday, 28 September, Venice to Tallahassee