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Paris (Part 3)
Food and Drink in Paris Coming into Paris, our expectations in regard to food and drink were pretty high. As was the case with Italy, we approached this aspect of our visit to Paris with lots of enthusiasm and research. (Meaning, of course, lots of YouTube videos, but also episodes of Anthony Bourdain, and even…
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Paris (Part Deux)
Note: This is the second installment from our stay in Paris. Paris Bike Tour (“The Tour de Paris”) For our first full day in Paris, Saturday April 1, we had booked an evening bike tour of the city center. The Paris evening bike tour has a somewhat infamous reputation among our family and friends, many…
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Paris (Intro)
Editor’s Comment We were in Paris for more than two weeks, which we thought would mean a more leisurely stay but, the more we researched, the more we found to see and do, so those 16 days ended up being pretty packed. Recognizing that our blog is now over two weeks behind (we have departed…
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Milano
We traveled to Milan from Bolzano by bus on Tuesday March 28th and again enjoyed the scenery along the way – 4 hours of nice countryside and lots of grape vines. At a stop near the Verona train station, we discovered an interesting church built in the 1950’s which is kind of Brutalist Neo-Romanesque building…
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Bolzano, Italy
Why Bolzano? It is quite likely that you have never heard of Bolzano or Bozen, as it tends to be referred to locally. We came here primarily because Colleen had identified the Dolomite mountains in Sudtirol (South Tyrol) as something she thought we should see, particularly if we weren’t going through Switzerland, and Bolzano is…
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Venice, Italy
We were of somewhat mixed opinions regarding how long to stay in Venice. While we both wanted to go there, Ritchard was pushing for a longer stay than Colleen. In the end, we agreed to stay for 7 days and, after the fact, I think we both agree it was a good decision. There is…
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Vienna, Austria
Why Vienna? For those of you who track our itinerary, you may have noticed that we have started to reduce the number of places we are visiting and increase the length of our stays. While we eliminated a number of European “hot tickets” from our itinerary (Copenhagen, Strasburg, and Prague to name a few), we…
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Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm was a late addition to our itinerary. We added it because Pontus, a very nice young man whom we met on our sailing adventure from Panama to Colombia, graciously invited us to come visit him. We have found that it is often better to visit a city with someone who lives there, so we…
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The Lofoten Islands, Norway
Our original travel itinerary included the city of Tromso, Norway primarily because it is the largest city above the Arctic Circle and we had hopes of seeing the Northern Lights. But as we researched this area, we discovered the Lofoten Islands, a beautiful archipelago which strings out into the Norwegian Sea below Tromso. Getting there…
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Amsterdam
I say Amsterdam and you probably think of something which is (or until recently was) illegal in the U.S. and yes, there is that. Truth be told, we came to Amsterdam primarily because it was a convenient and affordable port of entry to Europe from South America. We spent a week in Amsterdam a few…
Burning the Inheritance
Our travels around the world
Burning the Inheritance 