A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold one to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, “I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.”
—Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
I’ve written travelogues from each of my trips to Europe:
2013 – Italy
Venice – Bassano del Grappa – Florence – Bologna – Siena – Lucca – Pisa – Rome
2012 – England and Scotland
London – Greenwich – Bath – Stonehenge – The Cotswolds – Oxford – Stratford-Upon-Avon – Edinburgh – Rossyln – Melrose – Haydon Bridge – Jedburgh
2011 – Germany
Rothenburg ob der Tauber – Detwang – Munich – Dachau – Füssen – Hohenschwangau – Mittenwald
2010 – Italy
Rome – Arezzo – Assisi – Cortona – Orvieto – Florence – San Gimignano – Cinque Terre – Portovenere – Milan – Varenna – Bellagio – Verona – Padua – Venice
2009 – France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
Paris – Bayeux – Mont-St-Michel – Chartres – Colmar – Bruges – Ghent – Amsterdam – Delft – Den Haag – Haarlem – Zaanse Schans
2008 – Italy
Rome – Florence – Lucca – Pisa – Siena – Venice – Murano – Burano – Torcello
2007 – England and France
London – York – Bath – Paris – Versailles
2006 – London
London – Hampton Court – Windsor Castle
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