This afternoon we are headed to Greece with Alex’s family for a whole week! As you might imagine, I will be off the grid admiring the scenery instead of blogging. Just wanted to say goodbye and have a great week before we departed!
Image Sources (clockwise from top left): peuplier, We Love Crete, connermajik, and skagman – all via Flickr Creative Commons.
I’m finding it a little hard to believe, but in one week we leave for a trip to GREECE! I have been so outrageously fortunate to have already crossed the Atlantic on one journey in the past year, but believe me, it just takes one to know how much it can TOTALLY SUCK to arrive in a lovely European city as a completely-cranky-mess-of-a-human because you couldn’t catch a wink on your overnight flight. Anyone who has flown a red-eye from the West Coast to the East Coast probably knows the feeling, too! I’m already thinking of strategic ways to find sleep. The following are some new discoveries and some classic-Emily tips for you. (Find links to all products at the bottom of the post!)
How to get a good night’s sleep on a plane:
And in case you didn’t sleep so well, the following is the perfect kit for faking that you did (note – I find it’s best to do my freshening up right before we start the final descent):
So best of luck to all of us on our next lengthy journeys. May we all arrive at our destinations feeling refreshed and ready to go! Bon Voyage!
Good Night’s Sleep Links:
1. CheapFlights.com Beer Lovers Airport Guide
2. Help Remedies – help I can’t sleep
Post-Flight Refresher Kit Links:
I miss Paris. This was the ceiling in Notre Dame.
I went to Paris. I took over a thousand pictures, distilled them down to 142 (see all of those here), and then further still – I selected the following fifteen to represent the trip as a whole here, on Reasonably So. I’ve eliminated some of the more touristy shots so you can really get to the meat of the experience. Notes along the way and at the end.
Raspberry Rose Ice Cream from Berthillon.
A gorgeous night view from the apartment of a lovely woman who gave us a French cooking lesson.
A man painting in the Louvre.
Une bicyclette verte.
Notre Dame.
This man is making me a delicious savory crepe. Une gallette au jambon, oeuf, fromage, et champignons. In the Latin Quarter.
A rotund pig at the Queen’s Hamlet in Versailles.
A view of one of the used book stands along the Seine.
France, our cooking teacher, making us Kir.
Opulence and extravagance are some of the main themes in Paris. This is from the Opera.
My gorgeous sister, Casey, in front of Sacre Coeur.
Our meat for Thanksgiving dinner.
My beautiful mother bartering (flirting?) with the silhouette artists in Montmarte.
One needs a Café Creme before venturing through the Louvre.
And here’s me at Versailles. And those are Momma’s fingers making bunny ears. Smartass.
My suggestion, go to Paris. Eat the baguettes. They will taste delicious. Have them with jam and camembert (though the camembert will stink up your rental flat). Have some Chocolat Chaud. Eat a macaron or twelve. If you go in late November, pack warm clothes and several scarves (so the pictures of you will have some variety – a helpful tip that I received before leaving). Be polite and you will be treated with respect. If you have a brother who’s fluent in French, have him tag along and make sure he knows how much you appreciate his guidance and help. Bon voyage!!!!!!
Ah, c’est la vie. The pigs at the Queen’s Hamlet in Versailles are tremendously enormous.
