My name is Marion Vermazen. I am a traveler, hiker, reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, YouTuber, Spanish and French language student, knitter, weaver and genealogist.
Our plane out of San Francisco wasn’t until late Tuesday afternoon so Duke took me and the bags to the BART station and then he drove back to Allison’s and walked back to BART. it took about a hour.
This was the first time we’ve used Air France to fly to Europe and it was great.
Our premium economy seatsChampagne right after take off
We changes planes in Paris.
I think these chef mice with their baguettes in Charles DeGaule Airport look very French!
The flight to Madrid was almost 2 hours. Then we took the Metro into the center.
Waiting for our Metro train.
For dinner we had a jamon and cheese sampler at the wonderful chain, Museo de Jamon.
Jamon, cheese and beer
Then we walked back to the hotel where I plan to sleep for a very long time!
Duke’s birthday was last weekend. We are almost always traveling on his birthday so it was fun to be home, and to be able to bake him a cake and have a family party.
Duke and his monster birthday cake.
We leave Monday on our next big adventure. We will start with a five and a half week road trip through Spain and Portugal, then spend the rest of the trip in Italy and France. If you would like to see a more detailed itinerary, you’ll find a link to the day by day plan in the menu above.
While we are traveling I blog every day. It is fun when friends, family and others follow along on our travels. Please join us.
I started blogging back in 2004 when I was working at Sun Microsystems. It has been a wonderful way to chronicle my life. It is so nice to be able to look back and see what I did when, and where I was. Since I’m trying to use Facebook as little as possible, the blog and BlueSky, @marion-v.bsky.social, will be where I post updates and share my thoughts. My blog post are also cross posted on BlueSky.
We will also be putting videos of our travels up on our YouTube channel @BoomersWithoutBorders. We now have 968 subscribers and 199 videos! That means that in all likelihood on this trip we will reach and pass our goal of 1000 subscribers. I’m very excited. If you haven’t aleady subscribed we would really appreciated it if you subscribed to BoomersWithoutBorders now.
Our latest YouTube video
Traveling, blogging and creating a YouTube channel have been wonderful opportunities to be challenged, to learn and to stay young at heart. But I think it’s traveling most of all that is the biggest adventure. So starting Monday the adventure continues. We will be on the road again. I’m so excited!!
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