In today’s blog, we are going to play catch up from our time in France from July 2021. Let’s go! … We spent the last week and a half visiting WW2 sites around the coast of France. I think it made a big impact on the kids and is something Read more…
It’s hard to resist taking photos of the little French towns and villages we drive through, especially when the buildings are all painted in varying colors and the streets are lined with cobblestones. We found ourselves camping at a free aire again. An aire in France is a simple place Read more…
After taking the evacuation ferry from Morocco to France, we started to drive towards Croatia. On the first night, we tried to cross into Germany but got turned away because the border we chose was for Germans only. The border guard told us we’d have to try a northern border Read more…
Guess what we have today?!?!?! Tickets for the ferry!! WOOHOO!!! (in a bag because germs. lol) There will be two ferries to transport campers from Morocco to France and we got on the first one. Families got priority, if I remember correctly. Police escorted us to the port in smaller Read more…
It’s been a bunch of long and continuous driving days in a row since we’ve left our spot in Venice, Italy. The surprising thing about camping in Italy so far is they have a bunch of free designated camper spots that include a free water fill and dump. And sometimes Read more…
Ditched the van for a couple weeks to go hang out in Paris, France. We are meeting our college friends there while they are on their spring break. Athens > Rome > Paris. Arrived super late in Paris and had trouble finding a taxi. Once we did, he drove us Read more…
After spending yesterday as the dumb American tourists in France, today we have a much more welcoming agenda planned ahead of us. Courtesy of no one else but Teta Milica. She has planned for us to go visit her daughter, Marlene’s second cousin, at a real working countryside farm that’s been in her husband’s family for many generations.
First of all, I want to set things straight with this series of posts. Unlike our 2010 Cross Country posts, it is not likely I will write a post per day on this trip. Unlike a road trip, we don’t have a car and we stay in only a handful of places. That means a handful of days on this trip were not too different from each other. I will try to stay in chronological order though and highlight some of the days that were more significant. For example, our transit day from Los Angeles to Paris.
