http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime Eric & Ellyse's Travel Blog Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:29:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On our way to Portugal, we took a few days to go through Spain.  We’ll be coming back here later, but thought we should break up the drive with a little sightseeing along the way.  Our first stop was San Sebastian and although the weather didn’t cooperate for much outdoor ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/hola.html November 1st was the anniversary of when we left to start our trip around the world. It’s hard to believe that it has been a whole year already. I’m very glad that we decided to extend our travels by 3 more months because I’m not quite ready to come home ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/overtime.html I have always wanted to see the D-Day beaches at Normandy, so we headed in that direction and somewhat randomly picked a town with a good hotel. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the place we were staying, Bayeaux, was also the present home of the Bayeaux Tapestry. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/878-years-in-1-day.html We made it to France via the Chunnel with no visa drama, and proceeded to pick up our second new Peugeot, a 207 this time.  We decided to spend a few more days in France on our way to Portugal and Spain.  There are a few things that we intended ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/here-comes-the-sun-king.html After nearly a year without watching a pro football game, we were shocked and excited to find out that there would be a game in London of all places during our visit. While the actual game between the Pats and Bucs was a blowout and not the best example of ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/real-football.html