Tag Archives: Travel

While we were in the south of France in the summer we got together with Xander’s brother in Montpellier to see his new house and visit the Mare Nostrum Aquarium.

Like most other things I notice when I go back home, this is something I only appreciated once I was gone.

No, even though it may seem like it, I have not fallen off the face of the earth.  I’ve just been laying low and getting back into the swing of things after returning to the Netherlands.  I’ve not been feeling particularly bloggy and I figured I’d wait until I did rather than trying to force it. Anyhow, this is about …

Saturday myself and Penny were off to the Christmas market in Cologne, Germany.   We’d been looking forward to going for weeks on end so we were both totally stoked.   I think we weren’t really prepared for what was waiting for us though. We knew it was going to be busy, since it is getting closer to Christmas and we went …

For the last number of years I’ve been dying to visit the Christmas markets in Germany.   Since my husband was never too keen, it never really happened.   This year I was talking to my friend Penny about it and we decided to book a trip for the two of us to go.  On December 13th we are going to Cologne! …

Last week when I went to visit my friend Penny in Roosendaal, I realized that it was the first time I was on a train here in the Netherlands in over 2 years.  Since we got our new car! I used to hate having to take public transit so much that when we got the car the long distance public …

Today I went to visit my friend Penny in Roosendaal.  She showed me around the city center of Roosendaal, including this really beautiful shopping area that serves as a walkway between one side of the city center and the other. It’s been renovated recently and it just looks so nice!  I have no idea how it looked before but it’s …

That’s how long until the first day of Autumn.  It sounds like a long time but it’s not really, and we’ve not even had a summer yet (we didn’t last year either).   I want to go back to France, where it was warm and dry.   Barring my horrid sunburn, I loved it there… and I only got the burn because …

Before we left for the South of France a colleague loaned me a book titled 501 Must-Visit Destinations. One of the things that jumped out at me was Chateau de Castelbouc in the Gorge du Tarn. This is what lead us to stay there for the last few days of our holiday. It didn’t disappoint!! The tiny village is built …

Things have been a little ‘bleh’ here lately, I’m sick with yet ANOTHER cold (yeah, my third since October, wtf?!) and am stressed out and frazzled about a multitude of things. Thankfully I have like, the best husband in the world, so I know it’ll all be ok. So instead of getting into all of that, I’m going to post …

We passed this village every day on our way to and from our hotel.  I have no idea what it was called but I thought it was so beautiful nestled up there on the hillside.   There are so many villages like this in the Gorge du Tarn and it would take a lot longer than the time we had. I …