Residence du Parc is located near Disney Paris. I had read many recommendations to stay outside of Paris in the Disney area and take the train in, which we did because all the decent priced hotels & apartments were booked by the time I went to make reservations. It was an interesting experience but not sure it’s one I’d ‘recommend’ to others unless they were in a situation like ours.
Residence [Read more…]
Scavenger Hunt Adventures is a great new series I’m excited to share with you! It currently includes; Mission Paris, Mission Barcelona, and Mission Rome. These are must haves when traveling in Paris, Barcelona, or Rome with kids. I’m also excited that the author, Catherine Aragon, is a fellow military spouse!
The books are available both in print & digital forms. The digital forms (e-book) include [Read more…]
This past weekend we went out to Burg Eltz after hearing all the talk and ‘hype’ that it was a must see. Even according to Rick Steves’ it is favorite castle in Europe, so of course it had to be near the top of my ‘must-see’ list. Plus it was another place to cross off the Panther Paws day trip list, along with Burg Pyrmont. Needless to say my expectations were set pretty high and I have to say I [Read more…]
We went to Wallenborn, Germany to check out the cold water geyser and the Imkerei Mehler (honey shop & bee aviary). It’s another day trip we got to cross off the Panther Paws list as well!
Wallenborn, Germany is a short 30 minutes from the Spangdahlem area. Here you can see the cold water geyser which is 1 of only 3 in all of Europe, there are only 2 located here in Germany.
The little brown [Read more…]
Spring is trying to make it’s arrival here in Germany! We’ve heard Summer will come much later, like around August here. I’ve for our Spring Travels I’ve made it a goal to take a day trip almost every Saturday while we are here now that we are settled, sure we’ll miss the occasional one due to things like the Bazaar, Graduation, and such but for the most part we’re doing pretty good!
We went [Read more…]
The 3rd day of our trip Paris we spent out at Versailles France. We drove there from our hotel near the Disney Paris area and spent a few hours there before driving home (back to the Spangdahelm area). We visited Chateau de Versailles, The Trianon Palaces, and Domaine de Marie-Antoinette. We were there for just under 4 hours, it it’s somewhere you could easily spend the whole day if you wanted.
The [Read more…]
During our trip to Paris a MUST see was the Eiffel Tower! We also decided to check out the views from it as well. If you’ve been reading the blog then you know we visited the Eiffel Tower on our Day 2 in Paris.
We first made a stop at Trocadero to get the ‘best view in the city’ of the Eiffel Tower according to Rick Steves’ & other sources. I have to say it’s quite a great view!
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Paris is so huge that I’ve had to spread our trip out over several posts, I recently posted about our Day 1 in Paris, France and also the Louvre, Notre Dame and Getting To and Around Paris. Today I share our Day 2 we spent in Paris. Luckily we slept much better after Day 1 wore us out and we had a bit more energy starting the morning.
Our Day 2 Itinerary:
Arc de Triomphe
Champs-Elysse using Rick [Read more…]
We’re not big museum people but of course since we were in Paris we HAD to visit the Louvre. Don’t get me wrong I like to go look at the stuff it’s just that museums are not at the top of our ‘sightseeing list’ and I didn’t feel the need visit several of them in one visit. I wasn’t sure what to expect but I can tell you one thing, it was NOTHING like I had imagined and not in a good way, LOL! More [Read more…]
Paris is a large city with tons to see & do! It took a bit of research to plan out our 2 days in the city to make sure we got to see what we wanted and to make the most out of our visit. I’ll be sharing our itinerary as well as the resources I used to come up with a plan.
If you read my Getting To and Around Paris, France post you’ll know that we drove to Paris and stayed outside near Disney. [Read more…]