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High Speed Train Travel: Paris-Zurich Aboard TGV Lyria

TGV Lyria is the high speed train from Paris to Zurich We’d been looking forward to christening the train travel portion of our latest trip to Europe aboard TGV Lyria. This high speed train from Paris to Zurich was part of a transportation-packed day which ended in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse, literally …

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Normandy D-Day Tour, Part 1: Utah Beach and Ste-Marie-du-Mont

A Normandy D-Day tour is a great way to commemorate the Allied invasion’s 75th Anniversary A visit to the beaches of Normandy is on many a bucket list. With the D-Day 75th Anniversary on June 6, 2019, a Normandy D-Day tour is a great way to pay your respects to the Greatest Generation, who brought …

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Paris in Winter Has a Perfectly Lovely Patina

We had one full day in Paris in winter. Tempting as it would have been to load an agenda furiously full, we went unscripted. January had washed Paris in a misty sepia. We set out on the relatively short walk from our Trocadero hotel toward the Eiffel Tower, inhaling the city and saying very little. …

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