Photo in our Airbnb kitchen before heading out in Paris! We decided to stay in an Airbnb in Paris rather than a hotel because there were 4 adults on our trip and we wanted to stay together and have some hangout space for down time. Hotel rooms in Paris almost never sleep more than 3 … Continue reading Paris 2024 Olympics – Airbnb, Neighborhood, and Getting Around
I thought it might be helpful to frame all the rest of the blog entries about the Paris Olympics with our overall itinerary for the trip. You’ll see it was really packed and didn’t leave a lot of downtime, but we still managed to hang out at our apartment quite a bit watching other Olympics … Continue reading Paris 2024 Olympics Itinerary
I decided that I wanted to put a little more effort into documenting this trip for posterity than just the quick bytes I shared on Instagram. This is going to be a multi-post series here on the blog detailing pretty much every aspect of our trip, so feel free to jump around to just the … Continue reading Paris 2024 Olympics – Getting to Paris
If you know us, you are probably wondering why we suddenly bought an RV. "I thought you guys wanted to live on a sailboat full time. Did you change your mind?" Short answer: No! Long answer: Realistically, we are still several years from living our full-time sailing dream. We are planning to buy a boat … Continue reading We bought an RV! What were we thinking?!
I wish I could remember where we got the idea to go on a sailing adventure in the Greek islands. What I do know, from saved Hangouts and emails, is that I started looking seriously at a sailing trip with Intrepid in August of 2015. My original plan was to be on a boat in … Continue reading Sailing Greece – Santorini to Mykonos
When I originally started thinking about visiting Paris, I had spring in mind. Seeing the sights with mild temperatures, beautiful blooming gardens, and before the crowds of summer vacation sounded perfect. When I started looking at my vacation days from work however, the two weeks surrounding Christmas and New Year's Day jumped out as the … Continue reading Paris in December
For the last full day of our vacation, we booked a day trip to London with Golden Tours. The tour included roundtrip transportation on the Eurostar train and a fully guided tour of London. The description said we would visit St. Paul's Cathedral and the Tower of London, witness the changing of the guard at … Continue reading First Trip to Europe, Day 11 – London
I know it has been ages (months) since my last entry about our trip to Europe. I haven't forgotten and I assure you I'm still planning to finish the trip blog. My feelings about our day trip to London weren't very positive, and I've had a hard time figuring out how to write about it. … Continue reading Just a Few Quick Updates
Our last full day in Paris fell on New Year's Day. Knowing it was a holiday and the Parisians aren't exactly our idea of early risers, we planned to be up and ready by 10am. All four of us were moving pretty slowly that morning, so I figure we headed downstairs closer to 10:30 or … Continue reading First Trip to Europe, Day 10 – New Year’s Day and Musee d’Orsay
Words don't do justice to Strasbourg, so this post is going to be very image heavy! We got up and finished packing our bags and checked out of the hotel pretty early that morning. We had to navigate the metro (lots of up and down stairs) with all our luggage to Gare de l'est in … Continue reading First Trip to Europe, Day 7 – Paris to Strasbourg
I'd Rather Be Sailing 