Category: Travel
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We arrived in Rome late in the afternoon on Monday (June 17, 2019) and made it to our AirBNB via a reserved driver. This worked out great as our time in Rome was actually the shortest overall at this point. The driver was waiting for us as we left the…
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SUMMARY — Monday, June 17, 2019 was our big travel day – Carson flew home to San Diego from Paris. Once she was airborne, Conrad and I made our way to Rome (and then on to Amsterdam, Berlin, & back to Frankfurt to fly home to San Diego on Monday,…
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When we arrived in Paris (Saturday, June 15th), it was still late in the day (trip summary). We dropped off our stuff at our hotel (Hôtel de Roubaix) and started walking toward the Seine. We ultimately made our way to the Eiffel Tower. We took a ton of photos. Here is…
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Our trip from our Airbnb in Normandy back to Caen to return our rental car included a stop in Bayeux. If you are going to this part of Normandy I would consider Caen over Bayeux for renting a car. The city is bigger and the rental agencies are all near…
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Our AirBNB was excellent (photos). We would highly recommend staying there. And the area around our AirBNB — known as Les Bateaux — was so historical and visually stimulating. It was a short walk down to the beach from the AirBNB. As we walked there were still D-Day (June 6th) decorations…
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The trip from Ottignies to Normandy started out great. We went from Ottignies station to Belgium Central station, and then took a high-speed train (French – Thalys) from Belgium to Paris, France. We were very concerned about our transfer from our arrival station (Gare du Nord) in Paris to the…
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On Tuesday, June 11, 2019, we traveled from Bad Prymont back to Hamburg to Cologne, Germany, and then from Cologne to Brussels, Belgium. There was another option to go to Cologne from Bad Prymont, but all the transfer times were very short so we went with via Hamburg for less…
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We arrived pretty much on time in Bad Pyrmont, Germany on Sunday, June 9, 2019 from Frankfurt via Hamburg. Bad Pyrmont is my Mom's home town where she grew up with her Mom and brother. I have visited this area of Germany a lot as a kid (every odd birth…
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Health Update Things have been slowly improving with my back since my bike fall in February (and it is almost to 1 year since my full-on bulged disc incident). I switched my morning runs to morning walks in March by switching my regular "run" days (Mon., Tue., Thu., Sat.) to…
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Photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash Slowly Improving To A Better State Per previous posts (Nov Dec Jan) — my Mom's sudden and unexpected passing on October 31, 2018 — is still consuming a great deal of my energy and attention. Things are slowly getting sorted out, and there appears to be on the horizon…
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