Category: Destination Diaries

Champagne!

Today we drove three hours south to Reims, France which is in the heart of the Champagne region. We managed to arrive in town just

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Belgium

On Sunday we headed to Antwerp for two nights. There were lots of windmills on the way, and miles and miles of farmland. We discovered

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Amsterdam Pride

What an amazing day! We spent several hours waiting for/watching the famous canal pride parade. There were so many wonderful floats filled with people dancing

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On a boat!

We left the Olympic diving, headed back to London for dinner in a pub. After dinner we caught our train to the coast that would

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Diving

Our last day in London – on this leg of our trip was spent shopping and watching diving in the Olympic park. I couldn’t believe

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Water Polo

We thoroughly enjoyed two fantastic men’s water polo matches Tuesday afternoon. It was the first either of us had seen water polo and we both

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Olympic Park

As soon as we departed the Tube at Stratford station we were herded once again with thousands of other fans. Moving to and from venues

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Badminton

We set out Tuesday morning for the Wembley Arena for a little Badminton excitement. We had great seats and saw several vey close matches. It

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Beach Volleyball

Wow- what an amazing day. We spent the morning walking around the Trafalgar Square area. We then joined the security queue to wait to enter

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