We're Back
18/July/2007 Filed in: Personal
Well, our vacation
is over. Andrea and the kids arrived back at YVR yesterday
approximately at noon where I picked them up and then had to hurry
on into work after dropping them off at home. My
return
was last week.
Our trip started on June 19th with a ten and a half hour flight from Vancouver to Munich where we picked up our rental van and then drove south to Nagova, a small district in Slovenia nearby to Maribor. For a few days we stayed there, visited some of Maria and Andrea’s relatives. Vera, Hansi & wife, and Anton (Karl’s brother) (and some others that I will quietly update when I can get Andrea to help me).
On friday, Andrea, the kids, and myself drove up to Austria to visit with Joseph (pronounced Yosi). We collected Angela and her boyfriend Bernhart and then drove through France. Our highlights were Paris, Disneyland, Marsailles, Menton, MonteCarlo (in Monaco), and Venice (in Italy).
While we were in Menton, we received a phone call telling us that Anna, Hansi’s mother, Andrea’s Aunt, and Maria’s sister-in-law had just passed away and that the funeral was to be held on Sunday. Since it was friday evening and we were just finishing up with touring MonteCarlo, we decided to cut our visit a bit short and only spend an afternoon in Venice instead of the overnight we were originally planning on. This was a good thing to as the hotel costs for Venice were astronomical.
Sunday was spent at the short funeral service and catching up and (for the kids and myself) meeting more family. We met with Hansi’s daughters, Tatianna and Matia, as well as Andrea’s other cousins.
The next five days included visiting with Maria’s goddaughter, an old girlfriend living in Koper, and touring the mountainous northwestern part of Slovenia. We saw some caves, the base camp for filming of the “Prince Caspian” movie, and some beautiful scenery. Paris stole my camera and kept begging us to stop so that she could run out and snap a few shots.
The last few days before I was set to return was mostly spent visiting with Vera, Andrea’s cousin, and her family: Frank, husband; Bojan, son; Tatianna, Bojans girl-friend; Ziga, their son. We were planning on traveling to Austria to spend more time with Angela and Bernhart but a clutch problem with the Espace van forced us to put that on hold until after I was scheduled to leave. Since Andrea’s Slovenian was only sufficient for basic conversation we received alot of help from our tow-truck driver, a nice young man by the name of Primus (pronounced Preemosh)
It was all good though. I wish I could have taken more time off from work but I was getting pretty close to burn out as it was. Some pictures have been uploaded into the photo files under the Eurotrip heading.
Our trip started on June 19th with a ten and a half hour flight from Vancouver to Munich where we picked up our rental van and then drove south to Nagova, a small district in Slovenia nearby to Maribor. For a few days we stayed there, visited some of Maria and Andrea’s relatives. Vera, Hansi & wife, and Anton (Karl’s brother) (and some others that I will quietly update when I can get Andrea to help me).
On friday, Andrea, the kids, and myself drove up to Austria to visit with Joseph (pronounced Yosi). We collected Angela and her boyfriend Bernhart and then drove through France. Our highlights were Paris, Disneyland, Marsailles, Menton, MonteCarlo (in Monaco), and Venice (in Italy).
While we were in Menton, we received a phone call telling us that Anna, Hansi’s mother, Andrea’s Aunt, and Maria’s sister-in-law had just passed away and that the funeral was to be held on Sunday. Since it was friday evening and we were just finishing up with touring MonteCarlo, we decided to cut our visit a bit short and only spend an afternoon in Venice instead of the overnight we were originally planning on. This was a good thing to as the hotel costs for Venice were astronomical.
Sunday was spent at the short funeral service and catching up and (for the kids and myself) meeting more family. We met with Hansi’s daughters, Tatianna and Matia, as well as Andrea’s other cousins.
The next five days included visiting with Maria’s goddaughter, an old girlfriend living in Koper, and touring the mountainous northwestern part of Slovenia. We saw some caves, the base camp for filming of the “Prince Caspian” movie, and some beautiful scenery. Paris stole my camera and kept begging us to stop so that she could run out and snap a few shots.
The last few days before I was set to return was mostly spent visiting with Vera, Andrea’s cousin, and her family: Frank, husband; Bojan, son; Tatianna, Bojans girl-friend; Ziga, their son. We were planning on traveling to Austria to spend more time with Angela and Bernhart but a clutch problem with the Espace van forced us to put that on hold until after I was scheduled to leave. Since Andrea’s Slovenian was only sufficient for basic conversation we received alot of help from our tow-truck driver, a nice young man by the name of Primus (pronounced Preemosh)
It was all good though. I wish I could have taken more time off from work but I was getting pretty close to burn out as it was. Some pictures have been uploaded into the photo files under the Eurotrip heading.