Paris Museum

Today, a trip to the Museum d'Orsay, as in the picture. Fred was amazed by the length of the line to get in, which was longer than any line he had ever seen. Strangely, Marge found the art to be of greater interest than the size of the line. Do you think that these two with such different viewpoints will ever be a ble to make it around the world together?

Paris 1

After a high speed ride, we made it to Paris from
Brussels in just over an hour. Paris weather cooperated well and our first few hours of walking around were enjoyable, and we were unanimous (unlike our usual 50.00001% to 49.99999% voting) that we really like the town thus far.
Thanks Simplicitus for the suggestions and we are always looking for more in all the places we will be visiting.

Brugge

We went to the charming and ancient city of Brugge yesterday where the buildings are older than those in most of Sarasota.. Now today it is on to the ancient city of Paris. The weather yesterday was somewhat warm (not by Sarasota's standards) but rain is predicted for today. We have decided that we should have come to Europe about one week later, but that seems to be an error that is difficult to correct at this point.

This was just before she pushed me into the canal. Obviously, too much togetherness already.

On to Brussells tomorrow. If anyone has any suggestions about Brussels or Bruge (?) or Paris (on Monday) let us know.

Tulips and Us.

Tulips

Day 2 Museums in Amsterdam

Just to let you know about our current disasters. The first is that one of us dropped the computer, which explains why there has been no blog until now. (We have agreed not to mention who dropped it nor what his name is, but the machine has now been repaired) The second calamity is that the temperature has not gotten above 55 and our Florida blood did not realize temperatures ever got down that low. Strangely, the folks in Amserdam go about as if this were not not a hopeless situation. That climate problem has not been rectified. The nuseums have fascinated Marge and even Fred feels they are interesting. The attached picture is the entrance to the Rijksmuseum. Marge's jet oag alloowed her t9 fall asleep looking at one of the materpieces on our first day here.

The Day Before

Tomorrow we GO

The bags are almost packed. The three you see are going with us. They are not very large but I have packed lots of soap!

We will be in Amsterdam for one week. more or less. There will be visions of Van Gogh and tulips dancing in my head. Who knows what will be dancing in Fred's head.

Then on to Paris on the 21st.

Up Up and Away!