ASICS – 2130

Finally new shoes. I have run more than 400 miles on my old 2120 and so I decided to go buy myself a new shoe. I usually go to this store called Moving shoes in Madison – they are simply awesome. But I have recently become a member of REI and I noticed they had [...]

Paris – 4

On Tuesday, we finally went to Versailles. We had to take two trains to get there but we made it after one hour. We walked over to the palace which was a 10 minute walk from the station.
We got tickets for all possible things over there and went into the palace. We initially thought of [...]

Paris – 3

After a whole day at the Louvre on our first day, we decided to head to Notre Dame on Sunday. This was a mistake – the Sunday mass was in full force and so it was not easy getting into the church and a lot of areas were closed to the public. Even though we [...]

Paris – 2

Now that I am finally back home from my long trip, I have a little more time and a much better internet connection.
On our first full day in Paris, we decided to go to the Louvre. Paris honestly has the best train service in a metro that I have been to. Please note I have [...]

Paris – 1

We took a train from Lyon to Paris – it was the fast train TGV. Apparently it has been clocked at speeds of 581 km/hr. I am pretty sure it did not reach those speeds but it did cover more than 450 km in less than 2 hours which was pretty impressive. I should say [...]

Lyon – 2

On our first morning in Lyon, we walked over to the nearest railway station and confirmed our tickets for Paris. We then walked over to the Cathedral St. Jean. It was a pretty beautiful cathedral – really well decorated. One thing about France – this was the first place where we did not find dexcriptions [...]

Lyon – 1

We got to Lyon from Vienna on an Air Brussels flight. The airport in Brussels was awesome but the flight was not all that impressive. Maybe I got inexperienced pilots for the two legs – I am not sure.
We decided to take the public transport into Lyon – there was bus service which took us [...]

Venice – 2

The next day, my wife was clamoring for a long boat ride. So we decided to go to the furthest point, a place called Piazza San Marco. It was a really beautiful open space. Unfortunately it was really cold and pretty windy – we were in fall gear and it was a little colder than [...]

Venice – 1

We took a train from Florence to Venice. Nothing great happened in the train. If something did happen, I was fast asleep and have no idea what happened.
In Venice, I ventured out leaving my wife in the statio. After looking around for a bit, I found some information on the 72 hour passes that I [...]

Two days in Vienna – 2

The next day we took a train to get back to the center of the city. The cathedral was closed for Sunday, which we did not realize because I was foolish to not ask for directions.
We then made our way to Strassenbahnmuseum. As the name signifies, it is a museum. It was simply an awesome museum. Of [...]