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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…