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France Day 19 - Chillin'
Short and sweet. A lazy day today. Starts with a walk to la boulangerrie as usual. Today marks the end of Ella's discipline, and we celebrate with a morning of sugary treats! Slept in, ... played tennis (Asher wins again! Yay!) ..., movie night for ...
France Day 1 - Arrival!
... so jam down to the car to beat the rush and have time to pack up before we arrive in Paris. I'm nervous about our France experience. Virtually everybody I've spoken to has warned me that the French folks don't care too much for us Americanos. The ...
The Good The Bad and the Amazing
When one travels, ones never imagines the unsightly scenes that lie ahead. When one reads Frommer's or Fodor's travel guides it is rare to see pictures of the things that no one wants to see. But of course these things, distasteful as they ...
Paris - Day 4 - Tourist Stops
Mimi the blogger, ... on again! This morning we hung out and played at the apartment, while the laundry was going; we hung it on the rack to dry. Then we headed to le Parc Montsouris, a huge park right above the Catacombs;it has a few great ...
France Day 28 - The last day ...
As we roll out of bed, it begins to sink in that today is our LAST DAY here in Chateau-Gontier. So sad. ... We definately have some very exciting things coming up on the last two legs of our journey ... but we will be ending our time in this small town ...
A Little Wrench in Our Plans and Then to Versaille
We planned to wake up early to get a good start at Versailles but we managed to spend the entire morning planning our trip to Amsterdam and trying to find any hostel or hotel that had availability for the days we wanted. Everything was twice as ...
Louvre for Free? Try Again.....Catacombs Instead
Guess what.................. we slept in!!!! We set an alarm for 7am and didn't turn the volume up so we woke at 9. We ended up getting to the Louvre at about 10:30-11 and the line was, no word of a lie, 300-400metres long! It went around the inside of ...
Paris Briefly and Kind of Weird....
The wierdest thing....when I checked my passport stamp after entering France - I found last years stamp.....same date, one year later. Last year I came to Paris on a very long routing....Hong Kong to Bangkok to Amman Jordon to Paris.....on May 26, ...
Paris - Day 3 - Ditchin' the kids!
Bonjour from your Guest Blogger aka Mimi. Mommy and Daddy took off for a romantic evening in beautiful Paris, leaving me with les enfants for some fun and good ol' fashioned spoiling. Oh la la... We started out with a cool book called Paris Mini, ...
Canadian couple en route
While the 3 of us organized the last things and left Venezuela for France, Roman was/is finishing his drama classes in London, England and Tristan and Peggy were getting ready to leave Canada to follow us. From what I hear, their ordeal was not exactly ...
Gorges du Loup
Each time we go to France, there are a few things we « must » do: besides eating baguettes and overdoing on chocolate, we need to wander in old villages, taste « un éclair au café, un millefeuilles et un flan », admire the ...
France Day 18 - "Better than Versailles"
... is sooo mean! ... hehe... Goodbye to the Huets for today. We will meet again at least one more time before we leave France. Its great to have been able to develop a good friendship with these guys. Franck refers to Vincent as his closest friend, "his ...
France Day 16 - Versailles
As Janice gets the kids ready for our longest road trip to date ... I head to the store for some milk, fill up the car with gas, and grab some treats from la boulangerrie. I get home and we head out towards Versailles. Its just outside of Paris, and the ...
France Day 30 - Disney Paris
Man. A day full of Disney is tiring! This morning we decide to sleep in ... at least to 8:30am. Not too bad. We head downstairs and enjoy a breakfast before the trip in to Disney. Notable events: * Sam cried after CRUSH. Pretty intense ...
Family visit
My big brother is enjoying his vacation in the south of France as well. He is stationed at a camping close to Cahors so we arranged a family dinner together. The camping is located about an hour's drive away from Grenade, but we decide to first do some ...
Montparnasse, a movie and Mussels
In the morning we went our to see some French shops. The galleries Lafayette and Printemps department stores are just around the corner. So we went to Printemps. Also because they have a terrace on the 8th floor that has a nice coffee place with an ...
Sightseeing and a scavenger hunt for food
... lunch menu yet and walked away leaving us sitting at the table. How difficult can it be to get a croissant and a juice in France, apparently very. So we got up and left this place to continue our search for morning food. We tried another restaurant ...
France Day 20 - Not your average day of Chillin'
... in the summertime, and mostly only by Hubert, ... but it is FULL of character. We are surrounded by the rolling hills of France, a small grass fire burns in the corner, and around us are huge trees, blackberry bushes, and two beautiful homes. Hubert and ...
Back from Cannes
We just returned from a weekend of bliss in Cannes, France...We arrived the week before the Cannes film Festival and people were just arriving and getting everything prepared for the big week. We rented a car in Nice at the airport and drove into Cannes, ...
The Louvre, The Notre Dame, The Sommelier
... as they insulted the customers and tossed the dishes and drinks on the tables. No wonder tipping is not common practice in France. After our break we continued to explore the museum, we wandered around the more unknown exhibitions, visited the Egyptian ...
France Day 3 - Bike Ridin'
... of two different inclines. It was tough. We finally made it to Aze, a town built around one of the first Christian churches of France, dated to have been built around 540 AD. Thats OLD. There, we find a nice playground that we relax at before we make ...
And We're Off to Ol' Paris
We got up at about 7:30am for our 8:47am train so we could make sure everything was packed up and to make sure we took care of everything we told Diane we would since they're gone to Canada. When we were ready we went downstairs to the greenhouse ...
Happy Canada Day!...From France!
Happy Canada Day!! We decided that to ride the train back and forth from Paris to our hotel would cost far too much money so we asked the front desk if we could transfer to another hotel closer to the city center. It took close to an hour before ...
Paris - Day 1
Wake up, get the bags packed, last minute double checking of all our plans in Paris ... bags to front desk and check out... and off to Disney for our final morning in the park. I am SO proud of my son. He cried yesterday after the Nemo ride, CRUSH. ...
Paris - The most beautiful city on earth!
... visit Paris again soon. Two weeks before the date of departure, there was a terrifying news about the riots taken place in France. I was worried and scared since the news. I thought of to cancel the trip because of safety reasons, but my trip companion ...

