Photos by Kay Keys - Europe

Europe: 1972

Inspired by Europe 1970, after teaching high school a year in Odessa, Texas, I went back to Europe with my old college roommate Mary and her old government TA at UT, Terry. This was a Eurail Pass voyage for the most part. We made it from Amsterdam/Holland to Paris to Switzerland to Venice and Brindisi and over to Corfu, where we reveled in the sun and sand. At that point, I went on alone to Athens. From there, I took an excursion to Crete, visited Pompeii (where, while I was perusing postcards, an Italian tried to convince me to go to the Blue Grotto with him), crossed into England to experience Shakespeare country, and ended up in London, museuming all the way.

As with images from the 1970 Europe trip, all I still have is a set of prints (from only two rolls of film). Those were at least larger (3 1/2x 5 inches), but they were not processed by Kodak and so have suffered even more from color shifts and fading. They, too, were first digitized with 1990s hardware and software, but in this case I had to use all the scanner and Photoshop tricks I knew to make the memories come back more clearly.