Hanging in the Calgary airport after an enjoyable flight from Paris. The flight from Madrid to Paris on Air France went well and the room at the Crown Plaza near the CDG airport was surprisingly nice!
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Epic wedding!
Carmen and William’s wedding, The event this whole trip was planned around, happened yesterday. It was absolutely EPIC! An Uber took us to a shuttle, which took us to a converted, 16th century convent. The ceremony was beautiful and brief, after which there were tapas and drinks, followed by a multi course dinner and drinks, …
Flamenco, water park, and waaaaaay too much cheese
We went on a fantastic tour that included 4 tapas restaurants and a flamenco show. Elliot found us a very cool place to have lunch where we ate great deal of typical Spanish food: ham, cheese, bread, seafood, olives and wine. Except for the wine, everything is heavily salted. Thus the need for more wine! …
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Travel day
Why are travel days so tiring? You’d think 30 min sitting on the subway, three hours sitting on a train, and 15 minutes sitting in a taxi would be restful. Maybe what made it tiring was getting a 14 yr old out of bed at 7 am in order to catch the subway, the the …
Good bye Barcelona :(
Today we rambled down L.A. Ramblas, found the market (why didn’t we go there sooner?!) and ate all kinda of delicious things while a very loud thunderstorm raged outside. Omg. The chocolate at this place, though!!! Then the boys and I went swimming again while Lisa got her hair done. And tomorrow we take our …
But wait! Barcelona gets even better!!
The beach was pretty perfect today: imported sand, clear water and scorching sun! Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia made me wanna be religious again!:)
Barcelona: my new favourite city!!
Barcelona!
Long day of travel, but We made it! Pics tomorrow!
Givors, Vienne and donkeys.
We pretty much just roamed around this area today, on foot (where we met the donkeys) and in the car-to Givors (not too interesting) and Vienne (where we saw some cool Roman ruins and a medieval church). The drive back to Dargoire – through the vineyards of the Rhone region-was gorgeous!! we all feel quite …
Picnic and public swimming pool
After a midnight walk, a very late night and a long sleep-in, we packed up ham and cheese sandwiches and hiked up to the church at the top of the hill and had a lovely picnic lunch looking out over the towns gardens and farms. Notice the lizard! Then we packed up and drove into …
summer 2019 trip to france and spain 