The Terrific3 travel blog

We are back home! It was a harried day of airport lines, plane delays, sprinting with bags at ohare just to find out that our flight got delayed 6 times, and exhaustion over managing 2 exhausted kids, but we arrived at 1am yesterday, all woke around 7-8am, and feel good to be home. Some of…

I didn’t sleep much (though did sleep well) and was up at 545am. I decided to go for a peaceful hourlong stroll by myself, which was the perfect way to start the last day. After breakfast, we met with our tour guides for “route rap” and had a 15 miler on the schedule before packing…

I awoke to a beautiful sunrise today…. We woke to a great sunrise and breakfast at our absolutely gorgeous hotel chateau rochechette. This morning, our guides started with a route rap. They’re so fun! We rode to this lovely medieval French village Langeais and had refreshments at a cafe. Here are more fun photos of…

This day was even more amazing than the previous. It seems like each day gets better and I wonder how as they’re all so amazing. I’m seriously impressed with Backroads. Today, we had a Nike ride in the morning, and I managed to crash my bike while I was drinking water going downhill, and lost…

We are about halfway done with our trip and it feels like time is flying now! The kids had “medieval night” last night, where they met a knight and did some fencing. They’ve really been enjoying the kids only backroads activities. And I had a peaceful dinner with the other mom. The kids are getting…

This morning, we had a delicious breakfast at our so cute hotel in Tours and then headed to the nearby train station to meet our backroads tours leaders. We were meant to do this trip with family—my cousin, her husband and my niece and nephew, but sadly my nephew had an accident recently that had…

Leaving Paris morning! We visited all our “regular” haunts in the Latin quarter—maison d’isabelle and the fruit stand next door, bought some souvenirs at the Saturday market, and made our way via Metro to Gare d’Austerlitz. It’s so fun to “settle in” to a neighborhood, even if just for a few days, and make it…

I started off the day today with a nice run as we didn’t have to get going until 9am. Then I shopped by maison d’Isabelle for our breakfast—croissants and I had a yummy eggplant cheese thing on toasted bread. Kids caught up on soccer while I did all that and then we headed to the…