World of Options Travel Blog

  • Travel: It’s Not the Destination but the Journey!

    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! Read more

  • Driving in France: Round and Round and Round About

    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 Read more

  • Normandy Region of France: Heroes of Liberation

    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 Read more

  • France: Storming Normandy

    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 Read more

  • France: Castles and Wines of Val de Loire

    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 Read more

  • France: A CHUNK of Paris!

    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 Read more

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