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Pickpocketed in Paris! Tips To Avoid It Happening To You
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Da Vinci’s Last Sanctuary – Château du Clos Lucé
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Mont St. Michel – The “Island” Abbey
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Paris, France – The City of Lights

Pickpocketed in Paris! Tips To Avoid It Happening To You

It was only an hour and a half train ride from Brussels to Paris, but that small distance was enough to tear us forcibly from the imagined safety and naivety of travel we’d been experiencing so far. Ireland and Belgium had spoiled us. The people were friendly and we trusted […]

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Da Vinci’s Last Sanctuary – Château du Clos Lucé

The boundless genius of Leonardo Da Vinci found a place of rest and repose in the gardens of Chateau du Clos Luce in Amboise, France. Invited by King Francis I in 1516 to use the mansion and gardens as a place to live and work, Da Vinci packed all of […]

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Mont St. Michel – The “Island” Abbey

You could see it from miles away! We were driving toward the coast and there it was, rising out of the sea like something from a Star Wars movie – a city in space. Only this city was the Abbey of Mont St. Michel and it was on the Normandy […]

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Paris, France – The City of Lights

You can feel the excitement in the words from our travel journal! We had made it to Paris, the spectacular City of Lights. The first few days had a bumpy start – from getting pickpocketed (TWICE!) to learning our way around Metro systems and trying out awkward French phrases we’d […]

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