On Route to Brittany - 5th, 6th July

Left Paris in our rental car headed for the Atlantic coast of Brittany for a week of camping by the beach and pool.

On our way we spent a couple of nights in some little French villages - Saulges and Malestroit. We did some exploring along the way too

...in the cave of Rochefort at Saulges

... and in the Pierre Droits stone circle near Malestroit.

Looking forward to a week of relaxing!!

Sacre Coeur - 4th July

We climbed the hill up to Sacre Coeur today also - there was an amazing street performer at the top who earnt plenty of coins from the crowd. Will show the video when we get home!

The queue at the Louvre was too long to justify visiting the Mona Lisa although we did see plenty of roadside imitations! Three visits to Paris for Tarsha and I now and we still haven't managed to see it yet! 

Tomorrow we are off on our way to the Bretagne coast for some beachside camping...

Climbing the Tower - 4th July

Climbed the Eiffel Tower today for amazing views over Paris. We took the stairs so we could work off a bit of all the food we have been eating!

So Tarsha and I made it back to the top where we got engaged... No bottle of wine this time although there was some whine(-ing) from the kids! How times change!

Parc Asterix - 2nd July

Today we took the kids to Parc Asterix not far out of Paris in an attempt to avoid the massive crowds at Disneyland...

It was a very expensive day with the train travel, entry fees, lunch, etc, and still we had the long lines of teenagers thanks to the school holidays over here...





...but we managed to get on enough rides to make it all worthwhile!!!

Paris - 1st July

Bonjour from Paris!!

We have arrived in the land of baguettes, pain au chocolat, croissants, and crepes. Magnifique!!

A good chance for Grant to test his very rusty French.

We have started seeing some of the sights already but the weekend queues have been a bit daunting so we haven't climbed the Eiffel Tower yet...

Our first ride on the Metro was a very tight squeeze and Tarsha has managed to get on one train without the rest of us... Thankfully we had a back up plan! 

Goodbye to Prague - 28th June

Tomorrow we head off to Paris so tonight we spent our last few Czech crowns in Prague...

The travelers rejuvenated their tired old feet with some therapy from the Turkish nibbling fish!





... and we bought some nice woolly Czech hats for the boys to keep their ears warm during ski season when we get home.

On to Paris tomorrow...

Kutna Hora - 28th June

Today we took a day trip from Prague to the historic Czech town of Kutna Hora.

A town famous for it's creepy church with skeletal architecture... The Sedlec Ossuary.







Kutna Hora was also a famous silver mining town in it's heyday and we got to explore some of the old medieval mine shafts heading 35m underground...

We got to wear the cool miners outfits too!