Originally posted by Topsy Reminds me to never ever book a tour like that. Ever.
That does not sound like anything is enjoy. Well, maybe the last part with the ceiling, in pretty sure I would find that quite amusing, but still not amusing enough to make up for the rest.
Truth be told, the two month trip through Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Poland, France, England and Scotland was fun. Most of the time when I ran into these "instances" they were short and easily brushed off as people being people.
Another example of strange things people do with DSLR's is pop up the in-camera flash when standing in the public square in the middle of the day and blasting away. That and the "leaping tiger" stance to take pictures, (one foot back, the other foot forward and lean into the subject) just made my wife and I chuckle and walk away so we would not intrude on the photographers "moment" with laughter.
I came back with 5,964 images which I am now going through to see which ones will make it into my calendar for next year, posting to the Pentax Photo Gallery (if it really continues) and my National Geographic MyShot gallery.
We traveled between countries in Central Europe using the trains, 50 Euros for a 6 hour train trip for two people => cheap - in the US it costs $495 dollars one way from Seattle to San Francisco per person, used public transportation within the cities and walked on average 4.93 miles a day. The food was excellent and cheap as was the beer. The accommodations were all really nice - except for the airport motel we stayed at in Bordeaux France during our intra Europe flights. (We did not go into the city, we said at the airport and rented a car the first time and caught a early morning flight on the second night) We flew from Poland to France which was much cheaper than flying the same distance in the US. We (I) drove in France, England and Scotland. Lots of windy two lane roads through little villages, unfortunately no place to turn off and take pictures, type 2 fun.
On the whole it was an absolutely great trip and if I had the money I would do it over. Now that we have a little more experience, if/when we go back, we would make some changes, expand our range see a few things we missed, spend a little more time here and there. We will see what happens.
Here is a screen shot from LR of the places we were.
Last edited by PDL; 08-10-2017 at 04:36 PM.