Europe 2015 – Dubrovnik, lavenders, trulli, and Cinque Terre!

My goal is to visit Europe once a year when the weather is warm and I can’t wait for this year’s trip especially after the infamous Boston winter where we broke the record of the snowiest winter ever! It’s still two more months to go and I really can’t wait to go. To release some…

Paris Day 6: Our Last Day

Today was our last day in Paris, I couldn’t believe the 6 days went so fast and yet there are still so much to see! The weather was the best out of the 6 days we were here; blue sky with white clouds and temperature in the 70’s very comfortable. We woke up nice and…

Loire Valley, France

When I was a kid, I love puzzles that I even glued the puzzles and hung on my wall as poster.  I remembered one of the puzzle was a very beautiful castle situated on a river. I never know where or if this castle even existed in this world…..until I was planning my trip to…

Paris Day 4: Amazed By Palais Garnier

After 3 days of nice weather, my luck finally ran out; when we woke up this morning, it was raining outside!  It wan’t just few drops, it was raining non-stop the whole day. But good thing about Paris is that it has plenty to see indoors (I wished I saved Louvre for today but who…

Paris Day 3 – Fontainebleau

Today was cloudy (at least not raining) so it didn’t stopped our adventure to Château de Fontainebleau! Why was it an adventure? Usually we could just take the Metro 1 from Tuilieries to Gare de Lyon and then take the train to Fontainebleau but Metro 1 line was under construction so on Sundays, the whole line…

Paris Day 2 – Versailles

We woke up around 7 am today and the weather was partly cloudy so we decided to go to Versailles (opens at 9 am except Mondays)! From our hotel, we took the Metro 1 from Concorde to Invalides, then RER C to Gare de Versailles Rive Gauche. We purchased the Mobilis zone 4 ticket for unlimited train for 10.55…

Paris Day 1 – Louvre and Eiffel Tower

We flew from Boston nonstop to Paris, total flight time was around 6.5 hours. Our airline was Air France, the ride was smooth and we arrived in Paris CDG Terminal E at 8:15 am in the morning! It was very fast and easy going through immigration…stamp and all set! We picked up our luggage and…

Pre-Paris Prep

Pre-Paris Prep First…..let’s begin with the preparation I did prior to our amazing 2 weeks trip! Our first vacation in Europe was back in 2010 when we got married in Santorini, Greece and then went to Italy for our honeymoon.  Ever since then, we felt in love with Europe – one continent with so many…