Heather and I had great 2013...so great we never found time to update the blog! Our last posts left off after our 2 week trip across Spain which took place in March, right when we first arrived in Europe. Since then we have done a bit more travelling, so here are some updates on where we've been. We'll try to limit it to a few photos per location, but anyone interested in viewing the full collection should add me on Google+ (plus.google.com/+MattMayer) where we share the albums.
It didn't take long before we had visitors. The Carlson ladies came to Switzerland and checked out beautiful Montreux on the East end of the lake, and also enjoyed a wine tasting festival in nearby Lutry.
They then flew to beautiful Paris (without me!):
We found super cheap tickets to Budapest, Hungary, so we took a nice 4-day trip to the interesting city, where we explored along the Danube, celebrated Kindra's b-day at a buffet restaurant, and saw a Strauss opera in German with Hungarian subtitles!
The summer in Switzerland was amazing, with great hiking, via ferrata mountain climbing, and swimming in the lake.
In June it was back to Spain for a conference, and we got to see Granada, Malaga, and the Mediterranean coast:
In July we checked out Belgium (Brussels and Bruges) and Amsterdam:
Heather's parents visited in September and they took a huge trip across N. Italy, into Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and back up through central Italy. I'll let Heather post more on that in a separate post, but I joined for the first few days of the trip, through Lake Como, Verona, and Venice:
In October, Heather ran the Lausanne 1/2 Marathon and I did the 10 km run. Heather got 10th!
We took a cold November trip to see Berlin, where we saw the wall and learned about the history of the place:
And a less-cold December trip to London full of exploring and museums:
It was a great year.
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