Day trip to Biarritz
We had a 9:20am bus ticket to Biarritz today. We made a day trip of it, for the bus ride is about an hour away. From wiki: Biarritz, an elegant seaside town on southwestern...
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Akelare
Unfortunately, the Canucks lost last night =(. Game 7 it is. Becky, Darren and Jen woke up earlier and walked a bit outside to take pics and grab more pastries. Today’s weather seems quite...
Au Revoir Bordeaux, Hola San Sebastian!
The majority of us slept at 2-230am, for tomorrow was a travel day. I got a good 8 hours sleep. No waking up to go to the bathroom, no tossing or turning, just a...
Things I’ve noticed – part deux
The French Paradox – (from wiki) The French Paradox refers to the observation that the French tends to have a relatively low incidence of heart disease despite having a diet rich in saturated fats....
Bassins des Lumieres
We have another relatively busy day planned for today. Wes stayed up late again watching the Canucks, but they won! Yay! (This is the photo that Wes took at sunrise from the balcony of...
Day trip to Saint-Émilion
I slept at a reasonable time, 2am yesterday. For we woke up at 8am today for a day trip to Saint-Émilion. It’s a charming medieval village located in the heart of wine country. It’s...
Cite du Vin
We woke up around 9:30 and got ready to leave for our long day out and about in the city. The Foos woke up a bit earlier again to go get us pastries for...
Off to wine country
We had a scheduled 1:58pm train to Bordeaux from Paris. We had to checkout of our Airbnb at noon. We left our place around 12:30pm, and took an Uber to Gare Montparnasse (train Station)...
Paris, Je t’aime (Things I’ve Noticed)
Paris the 2nd time around was somehow, even better than the first. We were first here in 2007, and we spent 7 days in the city. I fell in love with the city back...
Michelin Star Restaurant
I woke up at noon. Since I got to bed around 6:45am, I got about 5 hours of sleep. The rest of the crew obviously got more sleep than I did. C’est la vie,...
Downpour in Paris
Everyone except Darren woke up relatively late. We woke up around 11:30 and could not decide on what to eat, except for Becky saying she needed some vegetables. And there just happens on be...
Isla’s Volleyball Season has come to an end
Isla’s team finished 6th in BC for all volleyball club teams under the age of 12. They did amazing this year, and she improved so much. I had the pleasure of being an assistant...
Taylor Swift
The day has come. Taylor Swift, the Eras Tour, the world’s biggest and highest grossing tour ever! Taylor has grossed over 1 billion dollars in ticket sales so far, and she literally just opened...
Le Marais
Our airbnb didn’t end up having air conditioning and our room got quite hot last night. We didnt’ sleep well and were awake around 4-6am but ended up falling back asleep again until the...
Our European Swifty Adventure begins!
We left our home yesterday 3 hours later than we had originally planned. This was because our flight was delayed 3 hours from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. We received an email in the morning notifying...
Camping 2023 Edition!
Camping is now a yearly past time for all of us. There were new faces this year as well, with Rosie and Lily (Christine’s nieces) joining us this time around. Last year; Stan, Anthony,...