We had a wonderful week in Nice with all of the family. We spent hours exploring the market, playing at the park, eating socca and drinking fresh fruit juices. We took a walking tour of the city and learned some of the history along with a greater understanding about their close ties with Italian culture. […]
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We are spending a week in Nice, France. Beyond soaking up the sun after a few weeks of rain in Britain, we are here for the opera. Kathryn Lewek has the titular role in Lakmé at Opéra de Nice and we didn’t want to miss her performance. To the world she is a headline making
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Our 62’ long and 6.5’ wide narrowboat is named Irene. Irene has 3 dedicated areas for sleeping, 1.5 baths, and a forward galley and sitting/eating area. The path through the boat causes us to wriggle passed each other every time we need to change rooms, it is only 18 inches wide! Irene has a single
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We are heading out of the country for the rest of the year and I have been planning my packing list for months. When Chris and I travel to Europe we prefer to only bring carry-ons, so that is our plan this time too. We are anticipating mostly warm to cool weather, but are packing
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We find that in our current life we have the luxury of time. Without needing to rush to our destination, we started looking for alternative ways to head to Europe. Chris found lots of information regarding repositioning cruises, which are one-way cruises that occur when companies are moving their ships to different areas of the
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Today we attended the 156th family reunion/picnic of the Bull family. William Bull and Sarah Wells met and married in what is now Orange County, NY and built their homestead there. The Bull Stone House still stands and is owned by the family association. In fact the house has only been lived in by Bulls
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Our Connecticut adventures brought us to the Pez factory! We were lucky enough to visit during a weekday while the factory was in production. They are currently working on orders for Christmas and we watched them box up 12 packs. The factory has a fun bingo game to play while looking at all the dispensers.
When we left DC a year ago we knew we were leaving an amazing group of people and a wonderful homeschool experience. Our brief visit back in the area has allowed us to participate in a few exciting activities with our old group. Friday night was the monthly teen event and the theme was built
We are making our way north for the summer and our first stop without our RV is West River Farm in beautiful West River, Maryland. The farm is home to our great friends, the Daigles, and a family get together was long overdue. We have enjoyed days of sunshine and catching up, hours on the
Two days ago we were trying to decided what the next few months and even years were going to look like for us. We have plans to head to Europe in August and stay there until Christmas, then probably back to Puerto Rico and more airline travel after that. That is over 18 months of
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