Friday, January 31, 2025 - Lunch in the Square and an Evening Stroll Weather: Sunny 55°F (13°C)

Today we had breakfast chez Guerlin - Skyr and baguette with butter and jam. Nice slow morning; we weren't ready to go out until 12:30pm.

Our goal was to find a SIM card for my phone, so we were tra...

Thursday, January 30, 2025 - We settle in, and start to explore Toulouse.

Sunny and 55° F (13° C).

Took it easy this morning, enjoying the idea of not having to travel for a whole week!

The place we are staying, Résidences Guerlin, is working out well; here's a pic of the front from the s...

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - We meet up with an old friend, and take a train to Toulouse.

Woke up at 9:00, packed up and had our first pain au chocolat of the trip - definitely will not be our last!

We checked out of the hotel and walked a few minutes to the Metro station at Notre Dame-de-Lor...

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

We're here! Hard to believe but we are finally in Paris. It was a bit of a rough night though. Paris is nine hours ahead of Portland, so although we were able to get to bed at about 11pm Paris time (2pm PST), we woke up around 3am (6pm PST) and sat up for a while. We fina...

After packing the items we determined necessary to our survival, we hopped into an Uber to the airport at around 2:30pm for our flight, which was leaving at around 7pm. We gave ourselves lots of time to explore the new airport. PDX lives up to the hype, they really did a beautiful job. Visit it out...

Determining the needs of our future selves is never as easy as we would like. Two months in Europe in winter and going carry-on only required us both to pare it down to the essentials. And to remember that probably anything we "forget" will be available wherever we are, in some form or other.

That...