The Jade is not unlike the Pearl (our Alaskan cruise ship), with a few exceptions.  It was originally decorated and built to be a ship for Hawaii cruises.  NCL decided to change its purpose when the Hawaii cruises turned out … Continue reading →

Arriving at Venice near sunset proved a beautiful end to a hectic day.  The train station lets out right near the vaporetto (water bus, or as DH calls them, Zapateras), and DH went to get us each a 24-hour pass.  … Continue reading →

Our evening in Lucerne was very enjoyable.  We had a little debate at first whether to drag our suitcases around or take the 20 minute bus ride to the hotel.  We decided on the hotel, by way of the ATM … Continue reading →

Well, I’m currently zipping through the French countryside as I write this (same with the DLP post, actually).  We’re traveling at around 120-150mph on the train to Lausanne.  We spent a day in Paris yesterday, starting with allowing ourselves to … Continue reading →

So…apparently, our train from Paris to Lausanne had some kind of computer problem such that the train thought there was traffic on an upcoming track and thus would not go.  As such, we were stuck at Dijon for 1.5 hours, … Continue reading →

We don’t know when they changed the name from EuroDisney, but it is now Disneyland Paris.  Adorably, all the signs on the RER to DLP have little mouse ears on them.  It’s the universal sign of Disney.   We woke … Continue reading →

As some of you may know from my Twitter feed, our flight coming into London got delayed by 3+ hours, which cut a considerable chunk out of our time to tour London.  We ended up skipping the British library and … Continue reading →