Posted in Trips, Vacation, tagged Champs Elysees, Eiffel Tower, Orsay, Paris, Romance, Train Strike, Travel on November 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Paris bus and train strike that started last week almost derailed (pun intended) our plans to visit Paris over the weekend. We ended up cancelling our train tickets and instead drove the 525km trip from Geneva to Paris. The drive itself was fairly easy with the TomTom GPS system and the outstanding [...]
Posted in Trips, tagged Life, Travel, Trips, Vacation on November 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »
As I was searching the internet for articles on our upcoming trip(s) (more to come on that), I came across this fun article originally published by the BBC. It lists their top 50 places to visit before you die. Interestingly enough, not a single item is in the UK!
I am up to [...]
We just got back from a 4 day trip to Zion National Park in Utah.
We stayed at the Desert Pearl Hotel which I would highly recommend for traveling families.
The first day, we did a moderate 3 mile hike called Emerald Pools. There are three pools - Lower, Middle and Upper. There is [...]
Posted in Trips, tagged Geneva, trip, Vacation on June 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I just got back from a business trip to Geneva. We had the most amazing food every night including dinner at Patara, La Perle du Lac and a winery. Patara is an expensive Thai restaurant next to the Angleterre hotel. The Pearl is a wonderful Swiss restaurant overlooking the lake at the end [...]
