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Day 6 Peru – Lake Titicaca and Floating Reed Islands
Read More: Day 6 Peru – Lake Titicaca and Floating Reed IslandsYet another 7am start to go exploring. We did not sleep well so today was a rought start. We are both glad we forced ourselves to get moving though. Because, how often do you walk on water Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world (12 000 fee above sea level). The Uros…
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Day 5 Peru – Time To Get Some Altitude!
Read More: Day 5 Peru – Time To Get Some Altitude!Bright and early this morning we had a taxi take us to Lima Airport. Traffic in the morning in Lima is a little nuts. Still not as bad as Cairo or Pnom Penh but it did take as a good 45 minutes to get there. Lima to Juliaca via Lan Peru was uneventful. 1 hour…
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Day 4 Peru – Terrorists to Tourists and ish
Read More: Day 4 Peru – Terrorists to Tourists and ishFirst off, the hotel we stayed at makes their own Pisco. As I said yesterday, we tried it at the pool. Kris wasn't a huge fan so we had to smile as our waiter brought us another set of shots as an after dinner gift. This time we both drank ours. I quite like it.…
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Day 3 Peru – Driving to Nazca, Nazca Lines Tower and Hotel Majora
Read More: Day 3 Peru – Driving to Nazca, Nazca Lines Tower and Hotel Majora545 start today to get breakfast and check out of Lima. Our driver (Christian) was right on time. He only spoke Spanish so conversation was limited. I never really realized that the coast of Peru is quite a desert. The Andes prevent enough clouds from forming so there is very little rain and mostly just…
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Day 2 Peru – Lima, Pachacamac, and Bridge of Sighs
Read More: Day 2 Peru – Lima, Pachacamac, and Bridge of SighsAfter a long day yesterday it was nice to have a decent sleep. Apologies to you English Teachers and Grammar Aficianados about yesterday's post. I was a bit out of it! Breakfast was only on until 10am so we couldn't sleep in too much. After breakfast it was off to wander the streets and see…
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Day 1 Peru – Here we go again and Continent six of seven.
Read More: Day 1 Peru – Here we go again and Continent six of seven.Well it's time for Dave and Kris to venture forth into the world and “see stuff”. Also today marks the day that Kris and I will have traveled to six of seven continents. The last one is the Antarctic. We have to wait a couple of years for that one. We are off…
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Whistler and Joffre Lakes
Read More: Whistler and Joffre LakesDay 1 – Whistler and Blackcomb First day up was a trip to do the Peak 2 Peak Gondola. Pricey indeed but on day like Saturday when the sun is out, amazing. At the top of the gondola we hiked a bit down the hill to the bottom of the Peak chair. You can see…
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We’re Home From Scotland.
Read More: We’re Home From Scotland.Well we made it. 19 days of intense history and sight seeing. All together as a family where jet lag plays in. We not only survived but enjoyed. Time to get back to reality. I’d love a bit of feedback on what you liked or didn’t like about this daily blog. It was fun…
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Day 18 – Legoland? Really?
Read More: Day 18 – Legoland? Really?Today doesn’t really fit our trip. Here we are seeing some spectacular history and such. And then we go to a them park. Well if you have kids you’d understand. Ryan wanted this trip way back when. Eric had no idea what it meant. However Legoland is translatable to 8 year old (as he was…
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Day 17, Fly Back to Heathrow and Off to Stonehenge
Read More: Day 17, Fly Back to Heathrow and Off to StonehengeToday was an early start. We had a 9am flight to Heathrow. Getting out of Edinburgh was it’s usual challenge. I must say though that Virgin Atlantic is a well run show. Brand new plane and free everything. Picking up the car at Heathrow made all your horror stories of LHR true. 15 minute walk…
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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
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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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