Where the Magic Happens Is there anything more magical than being in Disneyland on your birthday? At any age, I contend there’s not. We had just finished with a wonderful six days of touring Paris and decided to use one of our free nights from hotels.com to stay on the Disney resort at the Santa…
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Museum Madness Part 2 – A&M, l’Orangerie, Pompidou
Side note: just testing a new layout/theme for the website. Let us know what you think either way– we’ll probably be experimenting for a while. On the advice of a friend, we sought out the Musee des Arts & Metiers and Pascal’s Arithmetic machine. Luckily, the museum was covered by the Paris Museum Pass, and…
Museum Madness Part 1 – Louvre and Orsay
Side note: just testing a new layout/theme for the website. Let us know what you think either way– we’ll probably be experimenting for a while. Paris really is a beautiful city– from what little I remember from being above ground and outside. As Charity likes to remind me, we spent most of our time either…
The Parisien Biggies
The Parisien Biggies Eiffel Tower, River Seine Cruise, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, Sacre Couer, Latin Quarter On our very first night in Paris, I dragged Maylene immediately off to the Eiffel Tower and we arrived at dusk, staying long enough to watch the sun set from the middle viewing level of the tower. It…
And Now We’re in… Belgium…
After Ireland and a one-night layover in Amsterdam, we headed over to Belgium to play tourist in Brussels and Bruges. First up– Brussels. Advance research told us that there was not much to see and do in Brussels, but we went anyway because we couldn’t secure “affordable accommodation” in Bruges right away. No problem, we…
A Breakfast By Any Other Name
While in the UK and Ireland, we’ve stayed in numerous of bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) and guesthouses. As the second B implies, the room also comes with breakfast in the morning. More often than not, breakfast isn’t merely yogurt and cereal but a hot, cooked breakfast usually consisting of sausage, bacon, beans, an egg, tomato,…
Galway Tourist
Quick note: lots of pics in this post, so please forgive us if it loads slowly. As Charity mentioned, Ireland is the Coach Isle. As we do not have a rental car to go sightseeing, when we reached Galway, we decided to set up basecamp and use the city as a jumpoff point for tours–…
Free Derry – no seriously, free Derry already
Before setting off on our Irish adventure, we had identified a few towns and sites that we really wanted to see. Rick Steves had a show on Northern Ireland and let us know about this little town known as Londonderry. It had these great murals from an uprising incident sometime in the past and would…
The Coach Isle
I know, I know — Ireland is supposed to be The Emerald Isle and not the Coach Isle and truly, it is green – very green — there are at least forty different shades of it – just ask Johnny Cash. But truly, allow me the indulgence of temporarily re-branding the poetic name as is…
Not-So Easyjet – Part 1
We booked our trip to Belfast from London with EasyJet out of Stanstead in an effort to save a few pounds and arrive at a decent time. With the flight leaving at 11:55 am, we were off to the airport via Underground and then 45-minute train ride from Liverpool Street at 9 am. We made…