Category: recreational fun & games
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Striving (or what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger)
We’ve had a pretty crazy couple of weeks full of travel, a combination of work and lots of running. But since work is, well, work let’s gloss over that part and get right to the fun stuff. Let the catching up begin! First up, there was Chuck’s annual El Prieto Handicap race on May 19…
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Post impressions
We’ve been home for a few days now and already Europe and our time there is receding in my memory (kind of like the jet-lag). But casting my mind back, when last I left us, we were off to Delft. Delft turned out to be a really cool town! We took the local train and…
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Au revoir Paris, Goedendag Amsterdam
Katie headed back to Michigan yesterday (that would be Tuesday). We took her to Charles de Gaulle via metro and saw her through the security line, then headed off to Roissy-en-France to secure a hotel for our return to Paris next Sunday. Roissy, you may remember, is where we stayed the week we were stuck…
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City of lights
Monday was Katie’s last day in Paris so Chuck opted to end things on a high note. More on that later. We started the day getting breakfast across the street from the apartment where the waitress is working on Chuck’s pronunciation. Yesterday’s lesson was “jus d’orange.” It’s pretty cute watching him struggle with the alien…
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A little road trip, wait, make that un petit voyage!
Today we ventured outside of Paris to Katie’s number one request: Giverny (and is this not the cutest, quaintest website ever or what?!?). This was extra neat as neither Chuck nor I had ever been there. Our new BFF Stephane, our personal concierge (who we get to meet face to face tomorrow), arranged the whole…
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Day of the (mostly) dead
As the title implies today we went places that were full of mostly dead stuff, other than the tourists. And the weather took a turn for the colder with highs in the mid 50’s. Brr! We started the day at Pere Lachaise Cemetery (and yes, there’s an app for it – in fact there are two.…
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