Travels in Europe

Today I’m homeward bound! My flight wasn’t until 2pm, so Shae and I grabbed a quick breakfast before I packed myself up and was off to the airport. I got my bag checked and through security pretty quick so I had to wait around for an hour or so to know which gate to go…

I can’t believe its the last day of my trip already! But we certainly made the most of it. Having bought tickets for Park Güell yesterday, that was our first stop today. I went to this park last time, but that didn’t stop me from learning new things here. The first thing we did that…

Today was a bit of a rest day. While the tour last night was very fun, I definitely needed a bit of a rest today to recover since we didn’t get home until late. We did try to go to Park Güell, another of Gaudi’s, but the tickets were all sold out for that day…

Back in Barcelona! And this time the picture of health (unlike last year). Today was a busy day too. We started the day with some shopping, but not just any shopping, shopping with a slide! We had seen on Instagram that there is a Sephora store that has a slide entrance so we had to…

Today was a long travel day, but everything went pretty smoothly. We started the morning with a 7:30am train to Valence. The train took about 3 hours and was freezing for some reason. We had a 2 hour layover there, warmed up with some hot chocolate, and then got on our second train to Barcelona.…

Today, Shae’s friend Hugo gave us a tour of the area where he lives, which is just outside of Annecy. First, Shae and I went to the farmers market that was happening in Annecy to pick up some goodies for a picnic lunch. We got 3 types of local cheese, two types of bread, some…

We met up with Shae-Linn’s friend Hugo today. They met when they were both visiting Ottawa and he was the one who put Annecy on our radar. Today was the “retour des aplages” festival where they bring cows and sheep and donkeys back from where they were grazing in the mountains in preparation for winter.…

We got up a little earlier today to make sure we were on time for our only scheduled activity in Geneva; a chocolate tour! We ended up having a private tour by accident, and our tour guide Lily was so lovely. The tour took us to 6 chocolate shops where we tried a bunch of…

Today we travel from Lucerne to Geneva, but we weren’t planning to leave until the mid afternoon. We spent to morning wandering about the city before heading to the train station. The train from Lucerne to Geneva takes a little over 3 hours, and the views on the way were beautiful. Once we arrived in…

We had a late start today since we had no plans, and it was nice to be able to sleep in a bit. We spent the rest of the morning that there was doing some shopping in the downtown area. It’s definitely easy to find nice things to want to bring home here 😅. Then…