Roma!

Our flight from Ams­ter­dam to Rome was only delayed a few hours, which made for a rather bor­ing wait in the ter­mi­nal while we waited for the plane to arrive. Com­pared to our last one it was a short lit­tle hop about 3 hours, but of course we slept through much of it. We got at least a good hour or two of sometimes-interrupted plane sleep­ing in on this one.

After arriv­ing in Rome we donned our back­packs, instantly remem­bered that a heavy back­pack is even heav­ier with no sleep, and quickly found the train sta­tion at the

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May 11th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: cruise, Europe, Italy, Vacation | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Honeymoon 2.0 — international unrated edition

Mon­day morn­ing, bright and early:

Brandi — Brian?

Brian — Yes

Brandi — Let’s go to Rome today.

Brian — Only if we can stop in Ams­ter­dam on the way…

Brandi — Works for me!

It has all come to this very moment… The moment where you look back and ask your­self, did I leave the stove on; do I have every­thing; what if I get held up and miss my con­nect­ing flight.

For­tu­nately all that is now behind us. We checked in at Cal­gary a few hours a head of our flight so we were not rushed and had time to

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May 8th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: amsterdam, Europe, KLM | Comments are closed

5 days, the countdown is on!

In five days, we board our plane to Ams­ter­dam, then Rome. One week from right now, we will be asleep on our first night of our cruise, some­where along the NW coast of Italy.

 

Recently the cruise-line emailed to notify us that our sec­ond port of call had changed. Orig­i­nally we were going to the small North­ern Italy port of Portofino on the sec­ond day of our cruise, but appar­ently the Ital­ian gov­ern­ment has changed some cruise ship rules around anchor­ing in cer­tain areas (Insert Costa Con­cor­dia joke here). This made enough changes to how and where the cruise could

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May 3rd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: cruise, Europe, France, Italy, Vacation | Comments are closed

15 Days remain

With only 15 days remain­ing before our vaca­tion (Inter­na­tional edi­tion) we are get­ting very excited for our trip!

The sense of excite­ment and pure panic are col­lid­ing and result­ing in a flurry of “how much work can I get done”, “how much stuff do we need to buy”, “what’s going on with these cats for a month”, “OMG, we don’t have a cat sit­ter any more!” and so on.

We will be gone for most of the month of May as we fly from Cal­gary to Rome, hop aboard a cruise for 10 days and then hack around France and

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April 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: cruise, Europe, seabourn, Uncategorized, Vacation | Comments are closed

Full circle

Sit­ting in the frank­furt air­port wait­ing for our plane. For­tu­nately the flight only takes 2 hours and 5 min­utes. 1:45–3:50. Those cou­ple of hours will seem like 10 hours to us.

Sadly we must leave this won­der­ous land of for­eign lan­guages, strange food com­bi­na­tions and effi­cient train systems.

We will return to this fun adven­ture. That we have already promised ourselves.

October 8th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Europe, Germany, Vacation | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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