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. However, in all honesty, I think that this word has a bad rap and carries…

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 should qualify what we mean by best because I think that people may have different…

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 body used to the 9 hour time difference as quickly as possible. This is often…

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 and I was quite expecting one of us going to have to sit on Barb’s…

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 out regular emails to friends and family throughout our trip describing the details of our…

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 be on our way to France again for our Excellent Paris Adventure. In truth, this…