Our life & adventures
We left Bordeaux the morning of the 8th and started making our way towards our first stop in Spain, San Sebastian. We needed to get there by no later than 4:30pm in order to check into our hotel room and we had about a 3 hour drive ahead of us. We seemed to have enough […]
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Taking the advice of several good friends and few locals, we headed to St.Emilion to see the old village and wineries. We were not quite prepared for the amount of vineyards as St.Emilion has over 600 of them! Essentially we spent the day amidst never ending rows of vines. The first stop was the office […]
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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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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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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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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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Oh So Ready 