Our 6 days in Ireland: Visiting Dublin with kids
Well, we’re back from what Chris has officially dubbed “my favorite place we've been.” High praise! We spent 6 days in Ireland, including Dublin, a → more
Month: May 2017
Many of the people who know me in real life know about my love of British royal history ... my guilty pleasure being literally any historical fiction novel based on Plantagenets, Tudors, etc. I also have an affection for French history, however, so this day made me a happy lady. Naturally, I got to start my day off [...]
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Our family spent the last half of our trip to France visiting the Loire Valley with kids, and I can honestly say its been one of my favorite trips ever. One this particular day, we saw the Chateau d'Usse (Sleeping Beauty's castle), Fontevrault Abbey and the Saumur wine caves. I'd recommend all of them!
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So picture this: You are heading to your seat on what you hope will be a nice, relaxing 1.5 hour train ride to another city. You've got your laptop bag and plans to do a little work along the way. And then you get to your seat. A screaming 2-year-old is in your seat, valiantly resisting all efforts by her moth [...]
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One of the best parts of traveling with little kids is seeing their unexpected delight at the most random things. Tuesday may have been one of the kids' absolutely favorite days, and the chief reason wasn't the one I expected. We started off the day at Napoleon's Tomb and the Musee de l'Armee, part of a complex of b [...]
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"It's so beautiful that it hurts me," said Anne softly. "Perfect things like that always did hurt me -- I remember I called it 'the queer ache' when I was a child. What is the reason that pain like this seems inseparable from perfection?"
-Anne's House of Dr [...]
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We're back! Chris, the kids and I just spent a fabulous eight days in France (celebrating my 30th birthday along the way) and it went even better than I could have hoped for. This was Chris' second and my fourth trip to Paris, but we were able to focus on the places that we hadn't been before so a lot of things we [...]
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