From the balcony of our hotel room, we say "au revoir" to Paris this morning, and to our trip. Paris gave us a wonderful anniversary night last night. Now we head to the airport to return our car and board a plane to America. See everyone soon. Thanks for reading!

Today we go back to Paris, to celebrate our anniversary tonight (8th) and then fly home tomorrow. We are really looking forward to going back to Paris with a more relaxed attitude (we tried to see too much our first three days there) and are both looking forward to getting back to our real life at home (and especially our dog!). Yesterday we drove from Amsterdam to Verdun, France, where the bloodiest part of WWI took place. 300,000 were killed in 300 days. Se...

We are leaving Nice and heading on to Italy to the Cinque Terre. We won't have Internet until we get to Florence in three days, so don't worry about us not posting the next few days. Au revoir, France, and bienveneto, Italy.

The Hotel Le Corbusier is everything we hoped it would be. Spacious room furnished in mid-century style with a gorgeous view of the Mediterranean Sea. We slept so comfortably here. We stopped in Nimes yesterday and ate our picnic lunch by the Roman arena ruins. Made me anxious for the real Colosseum, less than a week away. The ruins were closed that day because they were preparing the fireworks for the town's Bastille Day celebration today. Of course, if yo...

Yesterday I let Chad sleep in while I ventured out in Barcelona to take care of our laundry. The woman at the launderette offered full service at a good price, so I left our clothes and brought Starbucks back to the room. Chad had been saying the past couple days how he missed American coffee and we've both been way less caffeinated than usual. At noon we checked out of our hotel around noon (did I mention in a prior blog how beautiful and spacious and perfect...