France
Travel Adventures to France
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Our Excellent Return to the Sea – Final
Transition Day Today is Saturday the 19th, and the whole ship is in transition. About 95% of the passengers have disembarked as they only booked a seven-day cruise ending in Civaateccia. Right now, the whole ship feels very empty as there are only ten cabins, including us, who have booked 14 days. The crew is extremely busy emptying out and…
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Our Excellent Return to the Sea – Part 4
It’s been six days since I last wrote anything about our trip, which is unusual for a three-week vacation. I always bring my laptop with me, and I try to write a little every day, especially in the early morning when Barb is still asleep. I’m going to catch up on most of the things that have occurred over the…
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Barb and Baden’s Return to France – Final
Sidebar I was originally planning on writing 4 installments for this Return to France adventure but for a number of factors this will be the final one. I’ll be covering a lot of ground, almost a 8 days worth. Missing the Crowds It’s now Sunday on our Paris trip, our 4th day here. I made another early morning run to…
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Barb and Baden’s Return to France – Part 2
Getting Here It’s 4AM here in the Paris apartment we’re staying at where I’m writing this next installment of our Return to France Adventure. A bit more on that in a minute. Wednesday was our travel day getting to Paris from Vancouver and had its unexpected highlights and challenges. I mentioned in Part 1 that we had booked a direct…
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Barb and Baden’s Return to France – Part 1
We needed to check our notes because we couldn’t believe that it’s been 12 years since our last trip to France. Of course, it’s been three years since we’ve been anywhere outside of North America, this Return to France trip is significant for us in many ways and quite possibly a broader return to travel. The tagline of my blog…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Final
Côte d’Azure It’s Friday morning right now and the end of our trip is in sight. By Sunday we will be heading back to the airport for our return flight home to Vancouver. Well, hopefully on Sunday. As of this morning, this is not 100% certain. More on that later. As I write this last chapter of our trip…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Part 4
Driving, Not Walking Now that we’ve moved down to the Bordeaux area, the one big thing that’s changed for us since leaving Paris is that we have a car. The small Bordeaux town of Margaux that we are based in really doesn’t have many amenities so getting around the area is only practical by driving. But there’s one really big…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Part 3
The Real Taste of Paris The other day we went out for breakfast to a local café and of course we had croissants and coffee. That first bite of fresh croissant is always the best as you taste the crunchy exterior and the soft, chewy interior. The same goes for a good warm baguette freshly baked. We bought a…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Part 2
Starting Off Just Right It’s been our experience that after a long day of traveling to a destination, checking into your hotel, it’s vital that things start off just right in your new destination. For us, it typically means that the place that we go for dinner has to be great. Of course, we all know that without…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent France Adventure 4.0 – Part 1
You’d think that after making three previous trips to France that we would have moved on to other places in the world to visit. After all, wouldn’t it be natural to just get tired of going to a single country time after time? Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. France is a place that Barb and I…