Eric is doing his first semester of teacher training at the University of Tours, an hour south of Paris. We have decided to take a quick family trip in Paris, then take him to Tours to get settled. After that, Ryan will head north into Switzerland to visit a friend and Dave and Kris will hang out in the Loire Valley and drink some French wine!
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Eric is doing his first semester of teacher training at the University of Tours, an hour south of Paris. We have decided to take a quick family trip in Paris, then take him to Tours to get settled. After that, Ryan will head north into Switzerland to visit a friend and Dave and Kris will…
We spent our last day slowly enjoying Venice. We started in the sestiere of San Marco, the administrative and religious center of the city. The loggetta at the base of the St Mark’s campanile (bell tower) was a gathering place for nobles visiting the square on government business. We took the Vaparetto across to the…
After breakfast we put our 4-day vaporetto pass to good use and motored up the Grand Canal to the Rialto market. It was fun to watch the locals haggle over fish and produce. Private gondola rides in Venice are very expensive and perhaps overrated. So instead, we took the traghetto (transportation gondola) across the Grand…
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