Maybe someday we will organize our October highlight photos but that day is not today!
In October, among other things, we completed two monster jigsaw puzzles, visited Maastricht, Köln, and Brügge (in that order on three separate trips), ate a bunch of delicious food, climbed the Cologne cathedral tower and visited museums, celebrated Kourtney’s and Elliot’s birthdays, hosted a friend in Aachen, and are looking forward to a Halloween party led by (who else, especially after last years Fall festival) Maya! Perhaps there are other highlights in the unorganized but briefly (thumbly, less humbly) annotated photos below:
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Cologne cathedral: breathtaking indoor elevations
Bruge: Libbie pretending in front of the torture museum (did not visit, the horrors of medieval Europe are enough without already)
Aachen: home Harry Potter puzzle
Bruges: lovers lake at evening
Aachen: in front of house on Kourtney’s bday
Cologne cathedral outside
Bruges: lovers‘ lake at evening
Cologne cathedral inside again
Maastricht: central square cathedral
Maya and friend Solveyg made bday cake (chocolate and cherries) for Kourtney
Bruge: Flemish stew
Bruge canals and swans
Aachen home puzzle
Maastricht arcade
Cologne cathedral outside the south tower whose 525 steps (in one direction) we climbed
Bruge: Church of Our Lady Bruge cathedral
Bruges: Church of Our Lady cathedral that has one of maybe two Michelangelo‘s sculptures outside of the Vatican
Aachen home: celebrating Kourtney‘s bday with a little in-House teenager number trolling (base seven, they are not wrong)
Closer up on the Michelangelo sculpture
Bruge: unknown cathedral on random street
Aachen Italian eatery pizza on Elliot’s bday
Cologne cathedral inside, panorama style
Cologne cathedral outside: second tallest in Europe
Cologne: seemingly so high up on the cathedral tower, gravity has lost its hold
Maastricht: central square
Brugge: cathedral tour
Brugge: evening hot chocolate
Brugge: Belgian fries
Maastricht cathedral treasury
Brugge: Groeninge, best art museum, Flemish primitives (not pictured here) rock! Modernity is older and weirder than previously thought
More Brugge panorama church of our lady vertigo
Brugge: cross street at dusk
Brugge: Maya with clams
Brugge: lovers’ lake at evening
Maastricht bridge: best photo ever on birthday trip!
Brugge dining: Flemish (not French, of course) soup!
More Brugge canal swans
A few more!
Maya in front of Aachen‘s narrowest and obvious Dutch-influenced building
Brugge side street
Aachen Dom: Ben, Maya, and friend Anna K
Cologne cathedral bell towers
Even more Brugge canals!
Aachen Turkish feast for five!
Aachen (rando car) matching sweaters!
Maastricht: Limburgish waffle with Nutella!
Cologne cathedral door closeup
One last Brugge
