The Palace of Versailles. Versailles (verse-eye) used to be the hunting cottage to the king before it turned into the grandeur that it is. We are again grateful to an insider tip to purchase tickets online to avoid the lineup. And a lineup it was. We gratifyingly bypassed the glaring line once again and jaunted…
Like I mentioned before, we had purposefully left the big landmarks for weekdays, hoping to avoid huge crowds. We scored at the Eiffel Tower. There were plenty of tourists and even school kids on a nice field trip but we had no trouble getting our passes to start our 1,664 step workout. The weather had turned a…
Before heading out to go see Le Louvre, we listened to our audio history on the Impressionists Monet, Renoir, Degas and Cassatt. We needed to get our art straight before heading into the massive Louvre. Outside of the metro station we marvelled at the Opera Garnier. We ended up near Champs-Élysées (shahns ay lee zay)…
Today Paris was to be experienced in the beautiful, hilly area of Montemarte. This area may have already been famous, after all to get to Sacré Cour (sakray kurr) one must walk through the neighbourhood, but the movie, Amèlie, made it even more famous. It was even more special for Hakim and I as our…
We arrived in Paris We arrived in Paris ahead of schedule so we were able to avoid most of Paris’ evening traffic jam. We rented a picturesque home just outside of the arrondissement (air on deece uh mont; that big circle thing around the center of Paris maps), a bit east of Orly Airport. Driving…
The day finally arrived! We were on our way to Europe. I had to keep reminding myself that we were going to be living as Europeans for the next two months and there was a lot of pre planning to do, including bills due in October that still come by paper mail. Regardless, I had…
Our upcoming adventure is Europe. On reading up on how to do this on more of a shoestring budget and in a more “recycling” sort of way, it was recommended to travel light. Having one carry on baggage sounds like it will be the way to go. In all my research, I’m finding out that…
Yes you read that correct, providing that you put the emphasis on Life Resolutions. New is just the adjective. It is a bit early for new goals though right? Costco doesn’t even have Christmas trees out yet (give them time people) Well it all starts with the T-shirt I had when I was in junior…
Our next traveling adventures starts at the beginning of September in France. However, in this next 6 weeks that means major focus on quite a few things. A main one is French. My deal with the girls to be fluent by our trip (this deal was made mind you in October of 2017) has not…
What a whirlwind the last two weeks were, which is appropriate as Wyoming is known as “Windy Wyoming”. It had been nearly 4 years or so since we last saw my side of the family and it was an emotional time to see them and get to know them again. We had three national celebrations…
