or Why I had a Baby Even When I Didn’t Want to. I wrote this blog in February, when I was nine months pregnant.  I’ve spent most of my pregnancy rather reluctant to discuss my pregnancy. It wasn’t too bad with strangers—their congratulations were generic and probably what I would say if I was in […]

            Research, research, research                                 Ultimately, this will be your greatest asset when it comes to trip planning. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I love (I think) to research our trips—locations, hotels, restaurants, activities, etc. till I’m blue in the face. Sometimes this results in me finding awesome […]

Monday. We leave Monday. We will fly out of France on Wednesday (or tomorrow as I finish this blog) but we leave Angers, our home for the past five months, on Monday. I was sitting in our café and it just hit me that it would probably be the last time we would chat with […]

We arrived in Barcelona around lunchtime, and enjoyed one of the best meals we’ve ever had in Europe at our hotel’s restaurant—not something I had expected. I had chicken with mustard sauce while Colton feasted on monkfish. These were followed up by cheesecake and ice cream. Not too bad for less than 10 euros each. […]

So the last half of our trip needs a bit explaining, as it doesn’t make that much sense that we went to two different cities but only spent one night there. We had intended for Rome to be the end of our trip, however the train we needed to take was full for pass holders […]

Our Roman adventure started the night before we arrived as we took a sleeper train from Vienna to Rome. The equivalent of a hotel on a train, we had a deluxe double sleeper—the fancier cabin of the type I was trying to get because the others were all booked. This worked in our favor though, […]