HandS Travel

So we recently returned from a small Easter road trip across some of Europe.  This trip came about from some more of my (Henry) random trip planning, much the same way that our Christmas trip was planned, this one was pretty random.  I was watching my favorite BBC show, Top Gear.  I saw an episode [...]

On our final day in Paris Sheila had a few different things planned…We wanted to go to mass at Notre-Dame even though it would be entirely in French.  We got there however and the mass had been canceled for some reason, we of course did not understand why as the signs were all in french.  [...]

Today we took the short train ride out to Versailles.  Sheila and I were both a little disappointed at first because we had imagine big open green gardens that you typically see in pictures.  Instead what we were greeted with was suburban Paris with many buildings and traffic.  We made our way to the actual [...]

Today we we visited one of the most famous art museums in the world, the Louvre.  The Louvre is MASSIVE, it contains over 35,000 pieces of artwork, we would try and hit just a few.  We started early in the day and saw the most famous piece first just to get it out of the [...]

We had planned much for our second day in Paris, but actually ended up doing more than planned.  We started out by walking through the Jardin des Tuleries, the giant gardens between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde and not far from our hotel.  On the other side of the Jardin was the Musee [...]

After arriving in Paris, we learned our second French phrase. Henry already knew, “Parlez vous anglais?” which means “Do you speak English?”. Our taxi driver replied, “un petit” which means “a little” but Henry thankfully pointed to the hotel address which he had printed in anticipation of this situation. We arrived at our hotel, only [...]

So I’ve started writing this post somewhere underneath the English Channel.  We are currently aboard the Eurostar train from London to Paris, a short 2.5 hour train ride.  Using my handy GPS I’ve noticed we hit as high as 186mph in the UK, just an interesting tidbit.  Anyhow, we are both very excited to be [...]