It's finally arrived. It's time to pack the bags and get out of town tomorrow. The past 34 days has been an incredible trip for us. We made our way by subway today (buying the correct tickets this time) on the way to Notre Dame Cathedral as our starting point. Once we arrived at the appropriate station we came up to ethereal and magical Saint Chapelle which has been hailed as one of the greatest architectural masterpieces of the Western world - certainly this c...

They say that every picture is worth a 1,000 words. So I've attached 60 photo's of my special memories from the start of the trip through to Paris. While I've pushed the shutter some 4,350 times on my newest Nikon D7000 and picked just a small portion of these to provide a summary for y'all, here they are. I need to say thanks to a few people who have made this trip a tremendous success. This was truly a trip-of-a-lifetime. Firstly KLM for the exceptional serv...

Last night was our first night in the apartment and it didn't go well. I didn't get a bit of sleep last night - I thought I had passed a lung about 2:00 p.m. My initial intention was to find a doctor and get some meds, but knowing that we had pre-reserved access to the Eiffel Tower for 9:30 a.m. I thought it would be better for me to go today than have to blow the 30E and go back with Deb another day. Wouldn't you know it - my pre-reserved printed passes had go...

Here we are in Paris - just a short 45 minute flight from Amsterdam - bags arrived and we're ready to go. We grab a cab from CDG to the apartment at 51 rue Blanche 75009 Paris. After the cab driver got ****** at T&J for a bag surcharge and left in a huff (58 Euros) we entered the code to our 3 bedroom apartment on the 2nd floor. To say this place is tiny would be an understatement. The main floor has 15' ceilings, but the owners have added three bedrooms to t...