Tales From the Trip - Yamba
From Mooselet Musings, 8 month ago Similar articles
Yet another good reason for me to be so quiet these past few weeks - I've been on holidays! I kept thinking it hadn't been so long since I'd last been away, but truth be told it was. We last took time away when we went back to the States in June/July last year. 9 months... hell I could make a baby in that time. And since I get 5 weeks vacation time a year - yes US folks, you read that right I get 5 weeks a year - I was well overdue for some time away.So we broke out the...
Morocco - Assault on the Senses
From AMSTERDAMNED, Yesterday, Similar articles
Our overland trip from Marrakesh to Lisbon started with an explosion on our senses the moment we arrived in Casablanca and made our way to Marrakech. The smells, the sounds, the sights were all different, chaotic and overstimulating. Morocco was the first country truly outside my cultural bubble and the culture shock I felt was as claustrophobic as the narrow covered streets within the Medina walls.  After working our way overland into Spain we were exhausted, exhausted from ...
CUBA here I come!
From The Dutched Pinay, Yesterday, Similar articles
So, flying tomorrow morning to the Caribbean, to Cuba. It is going to be a long flight.This trip just came in at the right time. I badly need a longer break right now. Seriously. I need to relax and think of NOTHING. Yes, think of nothing. Ahhh, that sounds so peaceful. No stress at all.I am also tired of the cold weather here.Nevertheless, I will be back in the Netherlands at the end of the month but will be blogging during the trip when able.Travel Period: May 2012
Aux Champs-Elysées
From The Bold Soul, Yesterday, Similar articles
I'm in the final day of frantic packing, cleaning and organizing for my trip to the States on Friday (why, oh why did I book an 8:20am flight' WHAT WAS I THINKING') and for some reason I'm inordinately more anxious about this trip than I usually am when I travel. (And no, I'm not having premonitions about bad things happening to the plane. I'm just freaking out about the piles of laundry, the messy kitchen, and the fact that I haven't vacuumed, food shopped, or ironed Georges' work shirts...
French Conversation :: Day at the Museum
From Somewhere in the Middle, 2 days ago, Similar articles
Last week, the Belgian ladies in my French conversation organized a trip to a small private museum called Villa Empain. These ladies are so wonderful! Every week they spend a few hours helping us improve our French. Each of these...
A Mother's day I will never forget.
From Put Your Flare On, 4 days ago, Similar articles
Photo from our last trip to Belle Ile, Dec 2011. Â My little dreamer. Â Maximilien pulled a fast one on us today. We packed up this afternoon to head to the Jardin des Plantes pour the plant festival this weekend. We planned to ride over on our bikes so we headed directly over to the bike locker. Though we didn't verbally say we were taking the bikes we walked in the opposite direction of the entrance/exit of our residence to get our bikes. Maximilien ran ahead of us like he does...
Mollie Makes visits my tea house.
From Put Your Flare On, 4 days ago, Similar articles
I recently friended a UK based American expat named Leigh who was visiting Paris on a extended trip. We hit it off from the start. She has a cute blog and an even cuter daugheter named Lois who Maximilien took a liking to immediately. Lois doesn't speak French but that didn't keep her from making fast friends with Max. You would never believe the conversations these two had a mismash of French and English and lots of laughing and wrestling. Lois can keep up with the boys for sure....
A foodie's haven in Copenhagen: Torvehallerne KBH
From The Dutched Pinay, 4 days ago, Similar articles
With Noma recently taking the spotlight as the best restaurant in the world, Denmark is seriously becoming a foodie paradise. Before the Copenhagen trip, which was before Noma was again selected as the best restaurant for 2012, I earnestly checked out my options of having dinner at Noma but later on realised that my chances are regrettably very slim, i.e. getting a table at Noma is like getting invited to a presidential dinner, and secondly, since when is it nice to dine alone in a Michelen...
Potsdam: New Chambers and Church of Peace at Sansoucci Park
From The Dutched Pinay, 5 days ago, Similar articles
New Chambers Palace at the Sansoucci Park in Potsdam.Potsdam is probably the perfect side trip from Berlin. It is an imperial little city oozing with history, majesty and stately architecture. It is where the Royals and the Kaisers once lived. Not very far from Berlin and just less half an hour by car or via a direct connection with the S-Bahn, this city also has a pretty old centrum and is home to the famous Sansoucci Palace and Park.Sansoucci Park I have to say is a world of its own. If it...
Ohayo Singapore
From Lioness in Japan, 6 days ago, Similar articles
I never ever ever ever drink booze on flights but somehow the Frankfurt-to-Singapore leg of my month-long trip transported me into a 12-hour nightmare with three screaming babies. Not just crying, but high-pitched don’t-give-a-rat’s-ass type of screaming. It’s such a cliche to say this but it must be what hell is like. Hey, I still love kids but I just couldn’t hack it. For realz. I never use “z” as a suffix, ever. There were so many passengers ordering...
Brrrrr! That Can't be Right!
From Here There and Everywhere, 6 days ago, Similar articles
When I travel, I check with Weather Underground so I will know what to pack. While I barely had time to unpack and do mammoth piles of laundry to repack for the next trip, I did have time to check the weather. Lovely weather, highs in the high 50′s and 60′s, going up to 80 on Mother’s Day this coming Sunday. So when we landed, and the pilot said “Welcome to Seattle, it is 47° out, my only possible response was “That can’t be right.” But as soon as...
