Drokpa Journal

Dates Traveled: September 2001
(I’d also worked/traveled here in May-September 1992, but that trip is without details)

After catching the Eurostar train through the chunnel, the last stop with Dad on the whirlwind tour of Europe was London, and we really did that one quickly. Saw all the main sights - Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St. Paul’s Cathedral, British Museum (quick tip - don’t do the Louvre and the British Museum on back-to-back days. There is such a thing as too much culture!), Trafalgar Square, Admiralty Arch, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, Picadilly Circus and Leicester Square at dark, and Harrods department store lit up at night….all in 7 or 8 hours. Whew! London was basically just a place from where his plane departed, but I figured he better see something of the city. I don’t recommend that quick tour, but it was his last day, and so he got the grand overview.

Dad and I spent about 3 weeks touring through Europe. We tried to get a bit of everything - good museums, hikes, amazing history, scenery, and beer, chocolate, and ice cream. Obviously this isn’t enough time to know any one place in great depth, but it’s enough of an overview that one can know what is available, how everything works, and can return again at a later date and delve deeper. I had previously seen many of the places we visited, but it was fun to see them anew through his eyes - and to see how they had changed.

Previous Trip

I’d also worked and traveled the UK from May-September of 1992. Unfortunately, I don’t have access to my journal for those travels, and so they’re not covered in this travelogue. On that trip I worked in Bedford, but we had a car and traveled all over England, and into Wales.

UK Photos

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