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Away We Go
It's finally here. We fly out in two days. I feel like I should be more terrified than I actually feel. Maybe Saturday. Probably Saturday. A few tweaks have been made to the itinerary from when I first posted.
Revised plan:
Paris (and other areas of France)
- St Germain area (where our hotel is)
- This area has the oldest church in Paris, St. Germain-des-Prés, built in 542.
- This area has the oldest church in Paris, St. Germain-des-Prés, built in 542.
- The Louvre
- Notre Dame Cathedral
- Eiffel Tower
- Catacombs
- boat tour of the Seine River
- Versailles
- Montmatre area
- Champs Elysees area
- Sainte Chapelle
- Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
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- Famous cemetery. Chopin, Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, etc are buried here.
- Musée d'Orsay
- Musée Marmottan Monet
- Chartres Cathedral
London (and surrounding areas) - train from Paris to London
- Westminster Abbey
- Buckingham Palace
- Hyde Park
- Piccadilly Circus
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- Thames
- National Gallery
- Camden Markets
- Houses of Parliament
- London Dungeons
- Windsor Castle
- Stonehenge
- Roman Baths
- Charles Dickens museum
Dublin (and the rest of Ireland) - train from London to Holyhead, ferry from Holyhead to Dublin, rent car outside of Dublin and drive around the coast of Ireland)
- We are staying here
- St. Patricks Cathedral
- Dublin Castle
- Temple Bar
- Kilmainham Gaol
- Dublin Ghost bus tour (hokey, I know)
- George Street Arcade
- Kilkenny
- Blarney Castle and Stone
- Famine Statues of Dublin
- Ring of Kerry
- Skelligs
- Cliffs of Moher
- Mizen Head
- Mossy Wood Nature Trail
- Ennis Ireland (staying overnight here)
- Lots of castles (we are staying a night in this one)
- County Cork
Back to France - Cherbourg and then 1 night in Bayeux (travel via overnight ferry from Rosslare, Ireland to Cherbourg, France)
- We are staying here in Bayeux
- Scott mostly wants to see the D-Day beaches and a crazy cathedral in the small town.
- The next morning we take a train from Cherbourg to Paris.
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