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Prague: Wenceslas Square and More
Today we wandered about Prague a little more, discovering Wenceslas Square, for starters. Does the word Wenceslas sound familiar to you? Wenceslas lived in the 10th century and was evidently a great guy. There are all kinds of stories about the kind things he did for others, including a Christmas Carol written about him traveling…
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Discovering Prague
We knew we were going to take a walking tour of Prague the next day, so we began our unguided exploration on this day with an out-of-the way marketplace that we heard was a locals’ haunt. We went and were surprised to find that the only street food we could get was Vietnamese! Who knew…
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Travel: It’s Not the Destination but the Journey!
Bill took this picture from the second floor of our beautiful terrace outside our new “home” in Prague. I’m writing after a VERY long day of travel from Paris to Prague. Here’s the story of our journey. I hope it will make you laugh some, but I hope it doesn’t scare you away from travel!…
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Driving in France: Round and Round and Round About
Teri has been writing all of the blog stories until now. If you have been following her blog, you should remember the story our tour guide in France told about a driver who got stuck in the roundabout and was driving around and around as the sun set and then came up again the next…
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Normandy Region of France: Heroes of Liberation
Allen was our host at his bed and breakfast in Basly, France. He not only housed us and fed us well with his homemade bread and croissants and his wife’s homemade jams, but he also drew out a map of locations he thought we would have time to see on Day 22. He insisted we…
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France: Storming Normandy
We stormed Normandy on Day 21 at 1630. Okay, really we took a train to Caen, rented a car, and drove into Northern France, where we discovered two beaches of Normandy. This is the first car we’ve rented on our whole trip, and I’m glad most places we visit have public transportation. Bill said he…
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France: Castles and Wines of Val de Loire
A VERY early train brought us to our soon-to-be friend Nisa, who was our tour guide with Blue Fox Tours. She drove six of us expertly out of Paris, through the French countryside, and into the Val de Loire (pronounced leh-way). She corrected us right away when we called it the Loire Valley. “As you…
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Paris: Love the Louvre
I have always thought of the Louvre as being a modern building with glass pyramids. I never knew it was actually eight centuries old! It began as a 12th century fortress surrounded by mote, built for protection. Then in 1542, Francois I added to it and made it into a castle. Eventually, matching wings were…
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France: A CHUNK of Paris!
On this day, we began a long walking tour of Paris with our personal tour guide, Bill Beaver. We were looking for the other side of Paris that the one-day tourist never get to. We saw the beautiful gold-domed Invalides, a hospital for veterans. We walked down little Parisian avenues to the Latin Quarter and…
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Paris – Notre Dame
Notre Dame, translated Our Lady, is one of the first gothic cathedrals in the world. It revolutionized architecture because for the first time, a building that large could be built without the arches they had used before, making buildings very thick on the bottom and not very tall. The secret was using ribbed vaults that…
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