Touristy or not In many of my blog postings, I have thrown around the word touristy here and there. In most cases, the word is used by me in a negative-sounding way describing a place that that you may want to consider not going to.…

Shopping Mecca You knew that it was just a matter of time before I talked about shopping. For all of the places that Barb and I have been to, we are both of the opinion that Paris has the best shopping in the world. I…

The first night on any of our trips to Europe is always the toughest. In general we start running out of energy around 6PM but we usually try and stay up as late as we can the first night in the attempt to get our…

I have to state for the record that I’m quite impressed with the amount of stuff that Barb packed into her suitcase. We had decided to take our small carry-on luggage on this tip as it was only going to be just over a week…

Paris subway sign as seen on our last visit in 2004 It’s been 8 years since we started using the term Excellent Adventure. It was on our trip to the South Pacific (New Zealand and the Cook Islands) in 1999 that I first began sending…

I guess it goes without saying that the secret’s out now. As more and more people were made aware of the details of our next Excellent Adventure, there’s no point in being coy about it anymore. By this time next week, Barb and I will…