Wrap up
A Grand Tour it certainly was. As I am enjoying Home Sweet Home, I am, of course, looking back. I tell The Mister that the #1 reason that our trip was so wonderful is that nothing went wrong. Nothing. So much of a vacation is out of your control ... and the longer the vacation, the more possibilities for things going wrong. We were wonderfully lucky and we know it and appreciate it. None of the don't-even-think-about-it things happened, events that would have ended our trip early. Not even one difficult-to-deal-with thing happened, such bed bugs in a place we were staying or a chipped tooth or lost luggage or a fender bender or an illness. I got 19 chigger bites in Bruges and, honest, that is the worst thing that happened to either of us traveling 10 countries for 3 months. Sure, I will brag that we planned well but it was mostly dumb luck that enabled the Grand Tour to unfold as we planned ... and sweep us off our feet. We even had good weather -- and nothing is m
