October 2021
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Argentina Day 5 & 6 – Valdés Peninsula Day 2
Read More: Argentina Day 5 & 6 – Valdés Peninsula Day 2Salina Chica (the small salt lake) is one of three large inland salt lakes on the Peninsula Valdes. At 42m below sea level, the lake is one of the lowest points in the country. The lake is pink due to the tiny shrimp exoskeletons living in the salt. The road down was a little sketchy,…
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Argentina Day 4 – Valdés Peninsula
Read More: Argentina Day 4 – Valdés PeninsulaMost of the Peninsula Valdes is parkland or privately owned, and many of the beaches are off limits unless you are on some sort of tour – this is strictly enforced. All roads are gravel so driving is quite slow. We had to leave early this morning to drive up to the north end of…
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Argentina Day 3 – Travel to Punta Piramides
Read More: Argentina Day 3 – Travel to Punta PiramidesWe left Buenos Aires this morning en route to Trelew on the east coast. We are definitely not ready for more flights yet but the timing is based on some other location later in the trip. The domestic airport (AEP Jorge Newberry) is only a few minutes from our hotel and much smaller than the…
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Argentina Day 1-2 – Flying to Buenos Aires
Read More: Argentina Day 1-2 – Flying to Buenos AiresOur trip has progressed with many flight updates being (what felt like) constantly updated over the summer. We scored a crazy good deal from Vancouver to Buenos Aires with AirMiles and managed to be Business Class the whole way. I think every single flight (we have 9 separate flying days on this trip) has been…
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Iceland Day 10/11 – Thingvellir National Park
Read More: Iceland Day 10/11 – Thingvellir National ParkWe may have said this before, but the weather here has been variable. Today was the bad side of variable. We awoke to some solid rain and biting wind. But our time is dwindling and rearranging days due to weather isn’t an option. So off we go with GoreTex and a positive attitude. Thingvallavatn –…
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Iceland Day 9 – Reykjadalur Hot Spring & Anniversary Dinner
Read More: Iceland Day 9 – Reykjadalur Hot Spring & Anniversary Dinner28 years ago today we wed. If you’ve wondered why we like to travel in May, now you know. We drove about 30 minutes through the town of Hveragerdi (try and pronounce that one – we’ve been told it actually starts with a K sound) and just outside of the town is the parking lot…
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Iceland Day 8 – Geysir Thermal Valley, Gullfoss, Secret Lagoon
Read More: Iceland Day 8 – Geysir Thermal Valley, Gullfoss, Secret LagoonThe Geysir geothermal area in Haukadalur Valley is a small but accessible hot spring on the Golden Circle in the western part of Iceland. The Strokkur geyser is the only one active right now. It erupts about every 5-10 minutes reaching 65-130 feet high. We stayed to watch a few eruptions. They were pretty cool,…
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Iceland Day 7 – Kerid Crater hike
Read More: Iceland Day 7 – Kerid Crater hikeWe woke early at the Glass House as it was sunny this morning – sleep masks can only do so much. We were treated to another great view of Hekla volcano – all that snow on the mountains is new since last night! By the time we had a relaxing breakfast and another soak in…
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Iceland Day 6 – Hjorleifshofdi & Gigjagja (Yoda Cave)
Read More: Iceland Day 6 – Hjorleifshofdi & Gigjagja (Yoda Cave)20 minutes east of Vik on Hwy 1 is Hjorleifshofdi, a 221m palagonite inselberg created from the interaction of water with volcanic glass, resulting in an isolated hill with chemical composition similar to basalt. The Gigjagja Cave in the wall of the mesa is affectionately called the ‘Yoda Cave’ (see below photo). The opening scenes…
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Iceland Day 5 – Fjadrargljufur Canyon, Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach & Dyrholaey
Read More: Iceland Day 5 – Fjadrargljufur Canyon, Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach & DyrholaeyToday we woke up to beautiful sunny weather with relatively clear skies. This was the first day we had no rain! It is still darn cold, though. Maybe 10 degrees and a lot colder when its windy (which is all the time). Reynisfjara black sand beach is at the edge of the town of Vik.…
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Paris to Tours
We said goodbye to Ryan this morning at our local metro station. He is heading off to Switzerland to meet up with a friend in Lausanne. The rest of us took the metro to the Montparnasse train station to catch our hour-long train to Tours. There, we picked up ‘Genevieve’ from Hertz. Over the next…
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Paris Catacombs & Luxembourg Gardens
Today we are heading to the 14th arrondissement in the Montparnasse district. This Lion of Belfort statue in the Place Denfert-Rochereau is a smaller version of the massive original in the town of Belfort. It was created by Frederic Bartholdi, the sculptor of the statue of liberty. The Paris Catacombs are a massive underground ossuary. …
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Notre Dame & Sainte-Chapelle
Early this morning we reserved our timed entry ticket for Notre Dame Cathedral on Ile de la Cite. Established in 1163 on the site of an ancient Roman temple, the church took 170 years to build and has a long important history. The first stone was laid by Pope Alexander III. Henry VI was crowned…
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