Lady, Where Have You Been?! Part II

Paris






My little sister was there:)


Versailles


Day-long campout on the floor at Beauvais.
Avoid this menagerie of an airport AT ALL COSTS.


We made it to Pisa in the middle of the night.


And visited a well-known celebrity.


Traveling companions


Siena


Sienese pit-stop


Florence






The night train seemed a sensational idea...


...until the claustrophobia set in...


...and we woke up not in Vienna, but rather in the middle of the Austrian countryside.


We finally arrived in Vienna, largely unscathed.


And our couchsurfing host brought us to a barbeque on an island in the middle of the Danube River.


Prague


A visit to John.


View from the Petrin Tower.


Pilser in Prague. Cheers, Dad.


Capitalizing on Europe's sunny gardens.


And it all ended with the jazziest of sunset dinner cruises down the Vltava River.

Lady, Where Have You Been?! Part I

Sofia, Bulgaria.


Aleksander Nevski Memorial Church. Sofia, Bulgaria


Visit to Roma community. Sofia, Bulgaria.


Bulgarian folkdance workshop.


Rila Monestary. Rila, Bulgaria


Hiking the Rila Mountains.




View from the Plovdiv ruins. Plovdiv, Bulgaria.


Plovdiv.


Dinner on the last night.


More food than I knew what to do with. DIS feeds well.


Who knew that our folkdancing skills would later come in handy?
Shortly before DIS joined the number...


For me, the pull of DIS was certainly that the opportunities to travel around Europe are so numerous. The week long study tours are expertly planned and pertinent to the material studied in class while still incorporating the necessary amount of shenanigans. And how many people get to say they've been to an Orthodox Monestary in the mountains of Bulgaria? Good work, DIS.