Paris – August 13th 2017 The famous Musee de Louvre. We wanted to check this out while in Paris. It was tops on the list. Purchasing tickets online was the way to go and we beat the line at the front. Kids were free (points just for that). I tried my best to get some...
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Paris – August 12th 2017 Day one in Paris had to start with a visit to the Eiffel Tower. We already had our tickets (btw, buy them 3 months in advance and not a week before like we did, just saying $). We met our guide on a random street corner and followed her to...
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London to Paris – August 11th 2017 We left Tooting and made our way to the train station to check/drop our bags off with the luggage hold. We had a few hours to kill before our train to Paris and had one more sight we wanted to see. Borough Market! We happened upon it the...
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London – August 10th 2017 Our last adventure day in the city started fairly early. This was for the simple fact that our 48 hour hop on hop off tour technically expired around 11am. So as long as we got on the bus before the expiring time we could stay on as long as we...
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London – August 9th 2017 Back to the city for Adventure day #3. Day two of our 48 hour hop on hop off tour. This morning we were to begin by getting off the tube at Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard. The weather had other plans for us. The sky opened...
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London – August 8th 2017 Adventure day #2 We used the hop on hop off bus for the first time. We purchased a 48 hour pass and we hopped on the bus and saw the last bit of the changing of the guard exiting Buckingham Palace. We hopped off near the boat tours (our ticket...
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Stonehenge & Swimming – August 7th 2017 What is a split day? I just made it up. But we actually did split up and do two separate activities on this day. Activity number one was swimming at the neighborhood pool. Activity two was taking a tour to Stonehenge. Any guesses on how the split went?...
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London – August 6th 2017 Adventure day in London! We booked tickets to the London Eye. We took the tube in to the city, got there a bit early to figure things out. Realized that even with online tickets we still needed to line up (or queue as they say here and I’m all fancy...
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Edinburgh to London – August 4th – 5th 2017 Who plans a train ride from Edinburgh to King’s Cross (a crazy busy station) on a Friday during the weekend and after work rush? We do of course!!!! The train ride into the city was lovely. Best way to travel. Lots of leg room, we could...
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Edinburgh – August 3rd 2017 Edinburgh Castle had been on my must see list the minute I knew we were going to Scotland. Seeing pictures of this massive Castle sitting above the city drew me right in. I could picture myself there, hundreds of years ago in the stone walls. Thursday was our day to...
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