Wednesday June 3rd: Beaune (Burgundy Wine Region) We head into Beaune early to go to their daily market. We browse through the usual stalls of meats and cheeses. There are a few interesting stalls of homemade soap or hand carved wooden spoons. We eye some delicious looking raspberries (framboise) and we opt for a small … Continue reading 3 – 6 June: Burgundy & Beaujolais
Thursday May 28th – Strasbourg, Alsace, France We wake up and start our day with a chest & bicep workout. We eat eggs and oatmeal, then find a park n ride where we park our car and take the tram into Strasbourg. Part of the coveted land of Alsace, Strasbourg is both German and French. … Continue reading May 28th – June 2nd: Strasbourg, Alsace (Route De Vin), Switzerland: Zurich & Geneva
Monday May 25th – Reims & Champagne Region We wake early in the car, doing cardio in the rest stop before eating breakfast. I wash my hair in the ice-cold water from the sink, before we use our GPS to try to find a route to Reims (pronounced Rahnce), which is centered in France’s Champagne … Continue reading 25 – 27 May: Champagne & Luxembourg
Saturday 23rd – Paris, Versaille, Carrefour Parking Lot We wake after our last night at our Air BnB in Paris. Today we pick up our Peugeot rental car. We have opted to use the French “Buy-Back” program from USA and Canadian citizens. This entails “Leasing” and car (for 17-days or more) from a French car … Continue reading May 23 – May 24: Versailles & Disneyland!
13 May: Wednesday After a restless night on our overnight bus from Sarande back to Athens, we arrive in Athens at 6 in the morning. We are here for 24 hours, another brief sojourn to see our friends Jackie, Kimon and little Bela before we head to Paris. We make our way to an Everest … Continue reading 13 – 22 May: From Albania to Paris, with a lot of Paris
When we tell people we are coming to Albania for an entire month, we receive a variety of very interesting reactions. From most people, friends and family back home, the first reaction is: Where is Albania? The other common question we’ve received is: Why would you go there? Typically, this inquiry is uttered with a … Continue reading A Month in Albania – 13 April – 12 May
Sadly this blog post from March 28th to April 12th was sitting on the desktop of our laptop when our computer decided to have a hard drive error and clear EVERYTHING from the desktop. After 5 hours with Mac support they could not figure out what happened. All we were able to do was verify … Continue reading March 28th – April 12th: Civitavecchia, Athens, Santorini, Athens
I’m sitting in a small whitewashed studio flat, classical guitar music playing in time with the ocean waves coming in through an open window. The deep blue of the window frame offsets the turquoise of the crashing ocean, raindrops intermittently freeing themselves from the clouds above. Here in Santorini, I finally pause for a moment … Continue reading 4 Mar – 28 Mar: Civitavecchia, Western & Eastern Mediterranean Cruise
Monday December 29th After a wonderful, but short time with our Utrecht host Julia we leave this morning at 8:30am to get to our Amsterdam host Melisa by 10am. A surprisingly expensive bus (from host to train station), train (from Utrecht 20 minutes to Amsterdam), and bus (from train station to Amsterdam host) means 13.60 … Continue reading December 29th to January 1st – Utrecht to Amsterdam to Schiphol Airport to Frankfurt Airport
It’s our last morning in Bruges, which feels sad. We are both ready to stop being tourists for awhile. This last month we’ve been traveling nonstop, and we are beginning to feel the effects. So many older people tell us how we are doing this sort of journey at the right time of life, when … Continue reading 27 – 28 December 2014: Utrecht
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