Bordeaux – 6.4.11 to 6.6.11

Bonjour from Bordeaux! We drove from Saumur to Bordeaux and arrived at our hotel around 7pm – Val promptly passed out cold and didn’t wake up till 11 a.m. the next day – guess the jet lag finally caught up with her. Chris stayed up to finish reading ‘A Million Little Pieces’ – jet lag or not, […]

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Random Observations

1. It’s true a Big Mac is still a Big Mac but a Quarter Pounder w Cheese is a Royale w Cheese over here. 2. Graffiti in France takes talent, we need to send our gang-bangers to art school. 3. Apparently they don’t get hangovers in France as “The Hangover 2” is retitled “Very Bad […]

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One Month – 6.6.11

Mom brought it to our attention that today is our month anniversary of being married! We had the most incredible time in Playa del Carmen and couldn’t imagine a better destination to get married in. Hopefully we’ll be back there in 11 months with the same group of amazing friends and our families to celebrate […]

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Angers and Saumur – 6.4.11

Had a very ‘pleasant’ wake-up – Chris was cursing up a storm because he thought we’d completely overslept and it was 2 p.m., when in fact, it was only 8 a.m. Once that situation was under control, we took our time getting ready and then began driving towards our first destination, Angers, which was about […]

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Quimper – 6.3.11

We woke up surprisingly late, around noon. Probably because we went to bed uber late following our two hour adventure trying to find a hotel and that our room was as dark as a bat cave. We scurried to leave as the maid was kicking us out and stole some wifi from the parking lot […]

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Rouen, Bayeux, St. Malo – 6.2.11

Yesterday was our first official day on the road. We picked up Bitsy and headed towards our first destination in Normandy, a town called Rouen. It’s a cute town with cobble stone streets, old architecture, and a beautiful clock tower. What wasn’t cute was that most of the shops were closed. We later found out […]

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