noe847

On our recent trip, in Germany and Austria I started every conversation in post offices, restaurants, shops, etc. with the sentence "I speak only a little German" in German. 9 times out of 10 the response came in English. In Prague, where I speak no Czech, I began with "Do you speak English?" and luckily for me the answer was usually affirmative.

john127

Okay, a few pictures. You can put faces to the names now, I guess.

There are three seperate slideshows:

Amsterdam/Breukelen/Gouda:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesho...p;conn_speed=1

Bruges/Brussels/Senlis:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesho...p;conn_speed=1

Paris:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesho...p;conn_speed=1

Hope you enjoy them!



John

john127

I have no idea why the messsage board isn't posting the full address as a link, but just copy the WHOLE address and paste each link in your browser and it should work.

noe847

John, www.tinyurl.com is a great resource. You go to the site, paste in your long address and it will assign you a short one that you can put in your post. Side benefit is that the short address doesn't skew the window size here on the forum.

noe847

I just pasted the links in my browser and got an error from the Kodak site.

john127

I forgot about Tinyurl, thanks! okay, try this:

Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/oebnd

Bruges/Brussels/Senlis: http://tinyurl.com/nxs3v

Amsterdam/Breukelen/Gouda:

http://tinyurl.com/lqo59

kerouac

Still not working!

john127

Okay, I now noticed a setting that allows the albums to be shared - they're being shared now. Can someone tell me if it works? Sorry about this guys.

john127

And if that doesn't work, this has to. I sent an invitation (to myself) to view my pictures to myself and this is the link supplied:

http://tinyurl.com/gakhm

bardo1

The URL's above still don't work. Try making new ones, I suspect they will be slightly different addresses now that you have allowed access.

bardo1

Voila! Finally!

SRS

Great report! We don't have kids yet but hopefully in a couple of years we will - your report is inspiring on that end. (Everyone keeps telling us that once we have kids our days of travel are over - but you've certainly shown that they don't have to be.) And I love your pictures - really really super!

Thanks for sharing!
Sally

LCBoniti

Thank you, john, for sharing your pictures. The photo of your boys watching the fountain by the Louvre pyramid was my favorite.

Your family is beautiful! Enjoy your boys every step along the way as they grow because it really does go by so quickly. (My "baby boy" is now 26 and spending the summer in Cuernavaca, Mexico.)

Best wishes to you and your lovely family -
Linda

noe847

The photos are great - lots of happy faces, so you know it was a successful trip.

john127

Thanks for the comments everyone! And Sally, don't let anyone tell you your traveling days are over once you have kids - your traveling days will be DIFFERENT, not done. There's a downside and an upside to that - for us, and as I suspect for most parents, the upside far outweighs the downside though!

Oh, and I noticed that if you use the last link I posted the slideshow stops after Gouda, for some reason. Just click the Browse All Albums link near the bottom and you'll be able to see the rest of the photos (click on the first photo in each album to start the slideshow).

grantop

Great photos John, thanks for sharing them with us; I love the ones of your children playing!

Tulips

I'm glad you liked Breukelen John. Did you see the castle where the business school is, right along the Vecht river.

Dejais

John, The photos were wonderful! Thank you for sharing them with us!

john127

Tulips, thanks for the tip about Breukelen like 6 months ago! We weren't there long, just for a lunch stop, but it we're glad we stopped.

WillsMom

I just found your trip report while looking for inspiration for my upcoming trip to Paris with my 1-year old son. I don't know if you're still checking these boards, but thank you so much for sharing your stories & photos. I have been a bit nervous about the trip, but find your posts to be reassuring.

Thanks again for the wonderful stories -- it certainly looks like you enjoyed yourselves!