Graduation Trip / Museum Tour - June/July 2016
Our daughter graduated from high school in June this year and is headed for Columbia University’s Evolutionary Biology department. We thought this was a great excuse to visit some really cool spots in England and France.
Some places we have been before but just can’t get enough of and some places were new to us and just wonderful places.
——- Maybe we did use graduation as an excuse to make a once in a lifetime trip to our dream list of museums, along with staying at dairy farms when we could.
Chatsworth House & Garden, Seaton Jurassic, Lyme Regis Museum, Charles Darwin’s Down House, Natural History Museum - London, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle : Grande Galerie de L’evolution and Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée.
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Chatsworth House and Garden - well worth the visit. The landscape seen today is one that Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown designed and oversaw it’s implementation . This was a huge project!
Lyme Regis Museum - Located in southern England on the Jurassic Coast, we always learn something new at this museum and always look forward to our next visit.
Charles Darwin’s House - A very special place for us.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - Oh the trees! Some huge…. some small. The second tree from the left was planted here in 1762.
Natural History Museum, London - It never gets old for us. We try to make it there whenever we are in the UK.
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Next, over to Paris, France to visit two museums that have been on the list for a while now : Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle: Grande Galerie de L’evolution and Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée.
Grande Galerie de L’evolution
Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée
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So much learned…