Our kids’ very most favorite babysitter came to play while we were in Amsterdam, Brugge and France, and they shed nary a tear when we left for two weeks. Mommy and Daddy who? There was no shortage of fun around here during our absence. They got to paint rocks. I won’t lie, I never get …
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Day 10 – ROUEN, ETRETAT We picked up our rental car early and left for the coast of Normandy. On our way we stopped for a couple of hours in Rouen, which has a well-preserved area of town that is an excellent example of a Norman medieval village. It is also where Joan of Arc was …
Day 8 – NOTRE DAME, ILE ST. LOUIS, PROMENADE PLANTEE, LE MARAIS, TROCADERO This is the view in the morning from our hotel. Can’t you just imagine that it’s 1800s Paris when you wake up in the period hotel room and look out of this? I really loved it. The first place we went was …
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We checked into the W Paris Opera the evening we arrived. We walked across the street to the Galleries Lafayette, the most beautiful department store I have ever seen. I’ll share pictures of that farther down the page because we went back later. Our first stop was to Napolean’s tomb, and to meet up with …
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From Brugge we caught a train to Amiens, France. It was so hard to choose which parts of France to see. Paris is obvious, but there is so much more! There is Provence (next time, I promise), the Loire Valley, Normandy, the French Riviera, but I really wanted to see the countryside. Amiens was along …
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This year we initially planned a trip to Belize to go scuba diving in the Big Blue Hole because this year was kind of Adam’s choice. Last year the Italy trip was more my dream trip than his. When our good friends David and Brittany said they were going to Paris and moving away to …
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