Leaving Waterloo Station on a train heading south of London, we readied ourselves for the next leg of the trip. From Southampton, we would board an ocean liner across the Atlantic Ocean to New York. Beforehand, though, I did some research on the town, since most Americans are in the dark about it. Southampton is … Continue reading Operation Transatlantic: Southampton →

Montpellier, our tour guide said, is considered a "young" French city,  because it's only been around for a millennium. This city, having the closest airport to Nîmes, is in the southeast corner of France, is a transport hub between Spain and the French Riviera. For this day trip, I was apprehensive, because in prior research, … Continue reading Operation Aqueduct: The Medical Town →

Leaving Paris on the earliest Eurostar out of Gare Du Nord, we embarked on the four hour breeze from Paris to London. The next day, our transatlantic ship would be raising anchor in Southampton, a port on the English Channel, for New York City. That gave us less than a day to explore London, the … Continue reading Operation Transatlantic: One Night In London →

With its train station close to the resorts, walking to the train to Paris was simple and easy. With trains that run frequently, the train ride from Disneyland to Paris was an hour in duration. However, I feel that this was actually a subway train dressed in another name, because as we neared the city … Continue reading Operation Transatlantic: The French Capital →

  This is the first entry into my next list to be on my site. This is a list where I will rate every attraction I encounter, and they will be found in lists in order of postings. Anyways, let's look at our first item. Walt's is an old-fashioned "American" restaurant located in Disneyland Paris, … Continue reading Operation Transatlantic: Walt’s At Disneyland Paris →

We had toured the village of Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer, but we were not yet done with the Camargue. The bus containing the delegation left the town, passing beneath the old church and passed back through the same road towards the north. On the left, I saw a marshy pasture on which four flamingos sat. As strange as … Continue reading Operation Aqueduct: Cowboys and Flamingos in France →

You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension of sight, a dimension of sound, a dimension of mind. A place of things and ideas. A dimension devoid of logic, devoid of organization, and where sensibility is a concept as abstract as a Picasso painting. A dimension full of mystery, intrigue, where anything can happen and men … Continue reading Operation Transatlantic: Drowning in Tourists at the Louvre →

Austin Airport was so poorly organized that it was an embarrassment. I will admit they did have a substantial choice of dining options and convenient shops, however we took issue with the gates. The problem was, they put two London-bound gates together; one for London Gatwick (our destination,) and one for London Heathrow. There were … Continue reading Operation Transatlantic: Under the Channel →

From Nîmes the youth delegation and the French entourage boarded a tour bus and embarked on the hour-long drive to the Camargue, one of Europe's most important ecosystems. The Camargue is a huge area of swamps, marshlands, and wetlands spanning a sizable amount of Southwest France. While on a map it appears politically part of … Continue reading Operation Aqueduct: The Land of Horses and Bulls →