Category Archives: Western Europe Our latest vlog (keyword here is “late”) tells you about our 2.5 month trip away from our Big Blue Bus. We tell you all the different destinations we visit (hint: there are 8!) and why. Spoiler alert: we are visiting one country for the first time, woot woot!  Every year, we leave bus life and head to our home-away-from-home in France. I’ve shared our French life on the blog before but never before as a VLOG. This vlog gives a tour of our house and neighborhood and insight into our life when we here. Best of all, though, there is some very special footage of a very special toddler milestone at the end!!  We’ve been at the airport all of fifteen minutes when baby Phoenix poops through his diaper, sleeper and onto my clothes. We have a 24-hour journey to France ahead of us that involves planes, trams, trains and cars. Was this explosive start to the trip a foreshadow of what was to come?  I’ve just returned from a mini Euro-trip to Barcelona, Carcassonne, and Bordeaux, and it was so, so fun! It wasn’t just great to be traveling again – after a two month hiatus – or that I got to discover three brand new destinations. It’s that I got to share the trip with two of my very bestest friends in the world!  France doesn’t unveil itself to me from behind the lens of its tourist towns. It unveils itself to me at its long, food-filled tables. Increasingly, through these rituals of food and connection, France has ceased to be a two-dimensional place with a long list of places to see – instead, it has become a comforting, comfortable, community-filled home. |
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