Paris, France
Sep.23rd - 27th
On our first full day in Paris we got up early and went to Notre Dame, its gothic design and incredible detail is something truly breath taking. When the fire of Notre Dame happened in April of 2019 it broke my heart that a part of this beautiful history had been damaged.
Afterword’s we walked down what we called "tourist trap lane" a street with multiple tourist shops that try to drop people in to buy souvenirs. They were very interesting to see. We also stopped for coffee and Macaroons.
In Paris we also experienced:
The Louvre and spent around 3 hours
Eiffel tower
The Opera house from the move Phantom of the Opera.
Saint Chappell
We also explored the catacombs underneath the dtreets of Paris.
Angelina’s Chocolat shop and tearoom. Fantastic food tea and treats.(We even went back lat3er on to take some stuff home).
Musée d'orsay
Took a last minute dinner cruise
P.s. If you go to Paris we would recommend going to Cafe Kleber, we went for dinner just walking around and found it, So delicious and the staff were amazing!
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sep.27th - 30th
My first impression of Amsterdam was that every corner you turn it was a perfect picture moment, beautiful views that are breathtaking. The architecture, the canals along every street, bikes and fall leaves all around as fall settles upon us.
Everyone in Amsterdam were prose at riding bikes on the cobble stone roads along side cars. We did take a bike tour and it is not as easy at you might think. Drivers are not afraid to get a little close to bikers because they believe the bikers know what they are doing there, we did not always know what we were doing, haha.
We also sampled some pastries and some of Amsterdam’s famous fries from a fry stand. They had many different sauces you can add, even things such as curry sauce. They were very good. We also went to a pub down the road from our Airbnb and while reading some of the papers on the table we read something about a little town in Washington, Walla Walla! It was so exciting for us that something half way across the world has history on a town in our home state.
London, England
Sep.30th - Oct. 2nd
The last full day in London, in Europe we decided to return back to the Barge house for one last great breakfast. We also went back to Westminster area and walked around with no real destination. Just enjoying our last day. We found a place to also have tea and ended up finding a Sunday market with venders and food trucks. It was one of the best little experiences we had on our trip. Not a busy tourist area but a small local place.