The Donovan Family's European Sabbatical, 2000-2001
Brian
Donovan, Professor of English at Bemidji
State University (in northern Minnesota, USA), writes:
I was on sabbatical leave for the academic year 2000-2001, and I and
my wife and our three children took advantage of this opportunity
to spend a year in Europe: ten weeks of summer touring the British isles, followed by nine months' residence in Greece. This site is a journal of our travels
and experiences, illustrated with our photographs. I uploaded the journal
and pictures in installments at irregular intervals throughout the year.
This site is intended for our extended family and friends, for my faculty
colleagues and my students, and for our children's elementary-school classmates
and their teachers. (We home-schooled our children for the year.)
Note that almost all of the pictures are "thumbnailed": that is, you first encounter a small version, but clicking on it leads you to the full-sized version,
sixteen times bigger and correspondingly more detailed.
Journal Entries:
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Ireland:
- 1 July: Bunratty, Blarney, Kerry
- 2 July: Muckross, Poulnabrone
- 3 July: Birr
- 5 July: Inis Méain
- 6 July: Gáirech, Uisneach, Slemain Midi
- 6-7 July: Connemara, Cruachan
- 9 July: Tara, Ardee, "Field of Slaughter," Muirthemne
- 12 July: Newgrange
- 16 July: Emain Macha, Malin Head
- 17 July: Derry, Malin Head
- 19-20 July: Giants' Causeway
- Miscellaneous Observations
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Scotland
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England
- 31 July to 2 August: Lake District
- 4-6 August: Haworth, York, Lincoln, Buxton
- 9-10 August: Shrewsbury
- 11 August: Ludlow, Gloucester
- 13 August: Oxford
- 17-18 August: Bath, Tintagel, Dartmoor
- 20 August: Exeter
- 22 August: Dorchester, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Old Sarum, Wilton House
- 25 August: Winchester, Brighton, Felpham and Bognor
- 28-30 August: Portsmouth, Penshurst, Bodiam, Beachy Head
- 1 September: Rye, Canterbury, London
- 8 September: London
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Greece
- 9 September: Athens, Litóhoro
- 19 September: Litóhoro, Dion
- 14 October: Litóhoro, Thessaloníki, Veryína, Lárisa, Pella
- 17 November: Litóhoro
- 8 December: Athens
- 19 January: Litóhoro, Athens
- 11-13 March: Litóhoro, Athens, Sounion
- 21 March: Litóhoro, Potidaea, Thasus, Néa Máditos
- 23 March: Platamónas castle, Mt. Pelion, Thermopylae
- 25 March: Delphi, Aráhova, Sounion
- 30 March & 1 April: Athenian Agora, Nemea, Corinth, Mycenae, Argive Heraion, Tiryns
- 3 April: Náfplio, Epidaurus, Lerna
- 4 & 5 April: Pylos, Nestor's Palace, Olympia
- 7 April: Ithaca
- 10 April: Ithaca to Corfu
- 11 & 15 April: Corfu, Meteora
- 19 April: Tríkala, Thebes, Plato's Academy
- 3-6 June: Goodbye to Litóhoro; Crete, Rhodes
- 8 June: Rhodes, continued: Valley of the Butterflies, Lindos
- 10 June: Lindos, Cos
- Turkey
This page was last modified 22 June 2001. You can e-mail me at
bdonovan@bemidjistate.edu.