Today we went on the “Tour de Paris”. We scheduled a bike riding tour, but didn’t really research how long it would be or where it was going. As it turned out, it was a very comprehensive tour around the sights in the center of Paris and lasted 3.5 hours. Continue Reading
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Day 9 – PARIS- Happy Birthday Charles!
Today’s trip to Paris started like most of our train travel, where our train car was on the train, but off limits. So we needed to go find another place to “squat” on the train. Luckily we found 5 seats relatively close together and only one of them were claimed Continue Reading
Day 7/8 – Normandy
After lunch on Sunday, we had time to do one activity in Normandy before dinner, so we decided to go to the Airborne museum which was a tribute to the paratroopers that landed on D-Day. This was a very engaging museum that was technologically advanced as well. Each visitor received Continue Reading
Day 6/7- Mont St Michel
The Mont St. Michel Monastary/Castle is truly amazing! We began our pilgrimage Saturday morning when we traveled from Lorient to Mont St. Michel in the 9 person van. We stopped on the way at Buffalo Grill, which is the French take on the wild west culture. As you approach Continue Reading
Day 5- Ile de Groix and Interceltique Festival
It was a beautiful morning in Lorient and the lack of bugs made sleeping with the windows wide open, without even having screens, excellent sleeping weather. You could hear the ocean birds in the distance as our wake up call. Today was another adventure. We met the Caucutts at their Continue Reading
Day 4- Travel Day to Bretagne
Early riser Charlie was the alarm for the family and woke us all up at 6:20. We were out the door by 6:45 to make our 7:20 train from Zurich to Paris. We are getting pretty good at lugging our luggage from place to place! It was a 4 hour Continue Reading
Day 3- National Swiss Day and a Lion Adventure
Charlie and Matt started the day by taking a walk in the park and visiting two playgrounds to give everyone else a chance to sleep a little longer. Charles still likes to wake up at the crack of dawn, but the time zone change went well overall. Today is National Continue Reading
Day 2- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Let’s start with the best of times. Today we took a train and 2 buses(all on our own!) to a fabulous mountain playground called Atzmannig. It was a hot one, but what an incredible day. It started with Bel, Lil and Mel spending 3 hours on a high ropes and Continue Reading
Day 1- Allo from Zurich Switzerland
We made it to Zurich! On the flight to Zurich it took about 3 hours to get through the dinner service, best part of the flight was the ice cream for dessert. Our least favorite part was it was a noisy flight and we got only about 30 minutes of Continue Reading
We are off!
We left MN on time and got into Newark NJ on time. Charles slept the entire time we were in the air. He literally saw taxiing in MSP and EWR, but was sleeping the rest of the time. After a hike through the airport and a quick bite to eat, Continue Reading