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The lead up to this trip has felt disjointed with loose ends left flapping all over the itinerary.As a result, I was double checking the itinerary, the to-do lists and the packing list 3 or 4 timesDid I mention that we have had to compress our luggage into 5 kg carry-on? Oh yes, friends. DueContinueContinue reading “Leaving Day”

What I was too tired to mention last night was the big flaw in my transport plan of getting us from Disney to Orly Airport.I had thought with the train it would cost about €50 for all of us and I was happy with that.But I thought I would pop in to the train stationContinueContinue reading “It all comes to an end”

Our last few days were a little boring really. Quite formulaic.I did go for a walk to the metro to ask about tickets to and from Disney the following day. I had a few questions, and typed them out on the google translate app and then took a photograph of them.When I got to theContinueContinue reading “Boat down the Seine/ Disney”

 was a very relaxed early morning of wandering through Rue Cler, the market street. Armed with a armfuls of croissant and baguette, I returned home for breakfast, eating flaky, buttery croissants with butter and jam. While everyone else chilled and snoozed, I walked to a nearby cafe for a cappuccino. Apparently this is a shamefulContinueContinue reading “The accidental dunce hat incident and a walk down Champs Élysées”

Pretty similar start to the previous day. Looking for croissants to compliment our cereal.Everyone is pretty much sleeping in and happy not to see too much. I wandered the streets a bit, loving seeing Paris starting its day. To be honest, the extra money for the hire car had thrown me. Losing that amount ofContinueContinue reading “Budget stress and macarons”

I had a horrendous sleep, partly due to the neighbor’s light glaring in my face and also in part because I was worried I would sleep through the 3:15 alarm. Just tossed and turned for hours.We woke on time and the taxi was 10 minutes early.The Ryan Air self check in terminal were all notContinueContinue reading “From the Lofty Heights to a Big Fat Low ( aka experiencing very low star accommodation)/EnjoyingAthensTaylor-style”

Sitting innocently on the loo first thing in the morning and I knocked some knob on the wall with my knee. The knob was a lever to turn on the toilet’s previously un-noticed internal bidet system. The knb/lever had a series of intensity levels and I must have pushed it to ‘clean this hot messContinueContinue reading “A splashy start to a dry hot day”

I could tell it was hot just from looking out the window this morning. We planned to try to avoid the heat. We are not the kind of tourists that are going to pound the pavement for hours and go to 5 museums a day.Our plan was to walk to Trastevere,where our host advised usContinueContinue reading “In which I say ‘Google’ too much and take hardly any photos”

The best thing I saw in Florence this morning was our host pulling the deposit out of his wallet and handing it back to me. I didn’t expect I would be getting it back after #key-gate2Senna is an amazingly generous man who went above and beyond. He organized our car parking also and had someoneContinueContinue reading “i look like I need a selfie stick, but no thanks!”

We woke to a dog scratching on our door and lay listening to the morning activity of a Tuscan country home.Packing up took no time at all and after one last game of Foosball we were hitting the road towards Florence.As we came through the ‘burbs’ we stopped at a shopping mall. While the shopsContinueContinue reading “In which I am bewitched by a bridge/Key-Gate #2”