We haven’t really watched any television since leaving the English-speaking countries. This is usually just as well since we should probably be doing something productive like writing blogposts or watching the latest episode of Amazing Race on YouTube (internet permitting). Nonetheless, I can’t help but do the obligatory once-through the TV channels once we are…
Category: Talking Stories
Playing High Roller in Monaco Baby!!
Before beginning our journey vagabonding around Europe, we knew we wanted to go to Monaco — Maylene’s “things-to-do-before-she-dies” list included playing a round of blackjack there and we wanted to visit a tiny country – we’ve missed them all so far except for Monaco! When I began searching for a hotel, of course I found…
Museum Madness Part 3 – Versailles and Quai Branly
In the final entry in our three part series entitled Museum Madness, we explore the Palace of Versailles (sort of) as well as the culturally diverse museum Quai Branly. I’d heard of Rick Steves’ free mp3 tours awhile back but completely forgot about them until right before Paris. I was stoked to find that two…
Nice…it’s nice…
We were so happy to arrive in Nice after spending so much time in Northern Europe. This part of the French Riviera is right on the coast and has a broad promenade with a pebble-beach where you can soak in the sun. At least 10 degrees warmer than in Paris, we wore short-sleeves and loved…
Where the Magic Happens
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…
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…
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–…