Travel & Adventures
Always ready for more...
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The Colosseum, Palatine, and Forum
At these three sites, all very close together, I finally got a good feel for the might of Rome. The sheer scale of the constructions, the engineering needed to build them, the beautiful art work, and...
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High in the Swiss Alps
We took a cable cabin high in the Swiss Alps, at the Pas de Maimbre above the resort of Anzere. After a few days of inclement weather, the sky was crystal clear, the air crisp, the view spectacular...
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Le Puy du Fou: A French Amusement Park
We toyed with visiting Eurodisney but in the end spent a whole day at Le Puy du Fou, a different kind of amusement park. Located in the Vendee region, about 200 miles south west of Paris, Le Puy du...
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The Creepy Catacombs of Paris
After taking the boys to Notre Dame, the Eiffel tower, la Cite des Sciences, and even a strike, we thought we'd show them another side of Paris: the catacombs (cue scary music). There are miles, uhm...
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La Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie
The City of Science and Industry is a huge museum complex full of interactive exhibits, it's the largest science museum in Europe. We learned about astronomy, space travel, and light, we fired a water...
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Traveling? Tired of seeing google results in a foreign language? Read on!
Google's a great search engine (so good I sometimes worry about seeing the world only through Google's eyes :-) but one thing always annoys me: it displays search results in the local language. This is great for the locals but not for travelers. In Switzerland google.com redirects me to a German google.ch, even though I'm in a French-speaking part of the country. In Italy, I get google.it. Mamamia, how to make it stick with English?!You'd think Google would have a setting for your preferred language but if they do...
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Terrific Eiffel Tower
Visiting the Eiffel tower was one of the high points of our Paris trip: the boys were really looking forward to seeing it and they weren't disappointed. Its beauty and size overwhelmed them initially...
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Visiting Notre Dame de Paris
We visited Notre Dame de Paris with the boys. Probably the best known cathedral in the world after Saint Peter's in Rome, it took around 200 years to finish. There's lots to admire but my favorites...
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A Genuine French Strike!
When we arrived in Paris we had a little surprise: the French were on strike! What luck! :-) The French public sector workers were protesting the government's desire to move retirement age from 60...
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