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The Great Escape

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We’re finally doing it.

We are finally planning a trip to Europe.  Mind you, it will only be for one week, but you’ve got to start somewhere, right?

We have just enough sky miles for a ticket and a half, and may have gotten relatively lucky in the accommodations department (I’ll keep you posted).  We’re thinking Paris and Guernsey in April, with a possible visit to London in between.  We’re also trying to work a brief train ride in there somewhere, because I’ve got a thing for locomotives.  

Since we will only be in Paris for two or three days, we shan't be very touristy.  I definitely want to see the Louvre, Notre Dame, and the Eiffel tower.  I would also love to visit Shakespeare and Company, an independent bookstore and lending library in the Latin Quarter.  Otherwise, I just want to sit in cafes and stare at people.  Do you think they’ll mind?

Guernsey is the main event.  I have wanted to visit the Channel Islands since reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (a perfect book).  Perhaps that’s a silly reason for planning an entire trip abroad, but before making fun please have a look at the photographs.  This place is breath-taking.  

And now for the point of this post: If you’ve got any tips, suggestions, and/or recommendations, please let me know!  I would very much appreciate need your input while planning this trip. 

10 comments:

  1. How fun! I have no input beyond that. But I look forward to seeing pictures. : )

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  2. Ack, how exciting!!! I'll get over there, eventually; my besty from high school lives in Wales, and MrB and I want to see Italy <3 Have a wonderful time!

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  3. my son and his wife went to Europe for 2 weeks for their honeymoon and I ask him to go to the catacombs (im weird like that) in Paris, check that out.
    they loved europe. I will miss you so bad if you cant blog! ahhhhh
    im so excited for you!

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  4. I'm so very jealous! Sure you don't want to take me along?

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  5. cute blog! have fun on your trip! :)

    natalieoffduty.blogspot.com

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  6. So glad we found each other...
    Love Love finding like minds.
    =)
    Will follow you...
    Your images are breathtaking.

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  7. Ah, I'm SO jealous!

    I can't wait to hear about your trip! It sounds amazing :).

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  8. Ahh, that's so exciting, dear!
    have fun and take bunches of pictures if you can:)

    I wish I could go!!!!

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  9. Woohoo! That sounds so exciting. I don't think I've ever left my continent.

    I would of course advise you to buy perfume, but I don't think that's the kind of advice you're after. :)

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  10. I actually did buy perfume. ;) We must think alike.

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