WOW! Okay, Paris is a really neat city. Did you know that? People should come visit this place, it’s fun. For today, we headed across the Seine from our apartment to explore the Marais. This is a neighborhood that’s full of beautifully dressed hip young things, fashionable boutiques, and some…
Day 36 ~ The Last Train Trip
Not a ton to report today – we spent 7am to 5pm traveling from Barcelona to Paris, so the day was short on adventures. In good news, we are both feeling very good health-wise. In further good news, we are in Paris! It is incredibly hard to believe we are…
Day 35 ~ Bye Bye Barcelona
After five weeks, tomorrow we leave for the final leg of our journey as we head north for a week in Paris. Tomorrow will be our last train ride (Stef has loved the train rides). Today was our last day in Barcelona. It’s a time of some reflection. For many…
Day 34 ~ Close to Home, Far from Home
Today we were still pretty faded, so we stuck close to the hotel to have a home base for hot soup, naps, and an endless supply of water. As we’ve said before, the location of our hotel is so central to so many interesting things, this was plenty to keep…
Day 33 ~ Positivo
No one has been more wrong about a medical diagnosis since doctors drilled holes in people’s skulls to let out bad humours. We 100% have COVID. The prudent thing to do would have been to set aside our own faulty judgment and test when Daniel first had symptoms. Now, we’ve…
Day 32 ~ Barsicklona
Well, Daniel and I are both nursing a very weird illness with nearly identical symptoms. It started as a cold that just seemed to linger longer than expected, and now we’re starting on Week 2 of feeling just really unwell. There’s nothing COVID-like about it, so we’re pretty sure it’s…
Day 31 ~ Howdy Gaudi!
Today was our first day in Barcelona, and it promised to be action-packed. Barcelona’s favorite son, the architect Antoni Gaudi, created many spectacular works in the city, and today we would see the most famous: Park Guell, and the Sagrada Familia cathedral. These are must-see attractions for literally every tourist…
Day 30 ~ Montpellie-Yay
Our time in Lyon was too short, and we would have loved more time. Stef’s cold had slowed us down, and we left many things unseen. But it was time to head on to Spain – but on our way there, we had decided to make a train change in…
Day 29 ~ In Which Stef and Daniel Encounter Many Surprises in a Park
Today started with a proper French petit dejeuner – a chocolate almond croissant and a babka, which Stef hadn’t had before, but turns out to be delicious. Honestly, we didn’t really know what to do with the day. We had a whole city to explore, and only one short day…
Day 28 ~ Traboules Ahead, Traboules Behind
Day 28 started with a trip to the pharmacist for cold meds for Stef, which went very well. Then we set off for lunch at another bouchon. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful…but it was awful. It was at a meat-centered place, and this was meat for purists – chitterlings…