Traveling to Paris, Europe and the UK extensively for the past 20 years, Mike & Georgia Sanders offer their experience as travelers and small-group tour guides to bring guests the best of Paris and France at Christmastime!
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Our first stay in Reims, France seemed to be enchanted from the start. The Notre-Dame de Reims seemed like a beautiful version of “Our Lady of Paris” in miniature!
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The first time I traveled to Paris I was 24 years old, and the decade was the 1980’s! Graffiti and high-tops were the themes…
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“…a spiritual feeling unrivaled by anything I have experienced at home before or since. No words can better sum up how I feel about my pilgrimage to Iona better than this verse we sang together from the hymn “All Are Welcome” on our last night…”
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So as the influences have come down, my family has kept my grandmothers journals from her major travel experiences and a few of them have come my way. Having spent much time in the United Kingdom myself now, I know that as much as things change, some things do not.
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I’m away from my San Diego home, visiting Louisiana right now, crashing in a friend’s New Orleans guest house. It’s the tail end of…
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Some call it the anti-Burning Man. Whereas Black Rock City packs up after it’s all over, the Bombay Beach Biennale is all about creating permanent art and transforming what was once considered an apocalyptic wasteland.
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What a great family festival, with pumpkin carving, statues made out of pumpkins reminding me of the floats of the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena made out of flowers – AND – special dishes like pumpkin soup, pumpkin pasta and delicious roasted and flavored pumpkin seeds to snack on!
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After my wife Mercedes and I got married, I suggested we honeymoon in South America. We had family friends in Lima, so we planned on Machu Picchu in Peru and the Galápagos in Ecuador.
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This was in May of 2020. The world was only about less than four months into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even for a family of four with just enough space in our home and a reasonably sized backyard…
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The mysterious island if Iona is calling, who will sojourn with us for a time? The natural and spiritual appeal of this tiny island in the Inner Hebrides off the coast of Scotland has been drawing travelers to it’s shores at least since the 500’s when St. Columba and his companions arrived from Ireland and set up a monastic community there.
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Charming and beckoning, these words can all be used to describe Dublin, Ireland! Dublin is the Capitol City of the Republic of Ireland and it is full of vibrant daily living, with days worth of sight-seeing and exploring available for visitors.
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