Author: Mike
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We’ll Be Back, Madrid
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s our last night in Madrid and we’ve just had a fantastic time here. Hopefully once the Depeche tour is over we will slow our pace down a little bit but for now, we are trying to see and do the highlights of these great cities with the compressed time we have. … Read more
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The Spot It Began, Versailles, and Hello, Madrid
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe’ve arrived in Madrid, Spain and love our first apartment that we officially call home (for a week, anyway). But I’ll backtrack to catch up on the last few days – starting with the day of the second Depeche show in Paris. It was a Tuesday and more drizzly weather with temperatures… Read more
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The Louvre
Reading Time: 5 minutesAlthough today included our first Depeche show in this final leg of the tour, I think this journal entry will border on trip advisor versus our personal journal. The experience just lends itself to that. I mean it’s the Louvre, after all. We started the day by taking the metro over to… Read more
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It’s Movie Day in Paris
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith excitement, we woke up to our first full day of our new life. Sandy has a longstanding routine of spending time at Starbucks on Friday mornings. It was Friday, so we went to Starbucks for a chai tea latte and a hot chocolate. It was shaping up to be another drizzly… Read more
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The Adventure Begins!
Reading Time: 5 minutesWell, here we go. We started our formal planning for this next big chapter in our lives on October 1st and five months later, we are sitting in Paris, France with the world in front of us. On October 1st, we started what my former boss affectionately called the “sticky exercise.” Just… Read more