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Day 15
Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 2:31 PM
☀️ 25 °C
Altitude: 529 m
Switzerland Bärenpark Bern 46.948537, 7.45564246°56’55” N 7°27’20” E
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Bern 🇨🇭
June 24, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
That is the Aere river - we are floating down that tomorrow...should be interesting.

Guy playing the bagpipes!

Plus, some interesting Swiss art 🎨 thoughts??

Also, people are really mean here 😢 when they hear us speak English to each other they give the stink eye and say something to us in either German, Spanish, French, Italian or Swiss German...because yes they all speak every language here except English 😭Read more
Traveler Di*khead 🧜‍♀️
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Day 16
Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 9:49 AM
☀️ 20 °C
Altitude: 560 m
Switzerland Schadau 46.746667, 7.63833346°44’48” N 7°38’18” E
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Lake cruise to Thun and Speiz
June 25, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Beautiful lake cruise to see some more scenery. Such a cool place but can't drink the running water so it's a no from me.

Checked out another castle 🏰

Also once we put our feet in the water...we decided not to float down it. The current is just a touch too fast for us 😅Read more
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Day 17
Monday, June 26, 2023 at 5:47 PM
☁️ 28 °C
Altitude: 151 m
France Strasbourg 48.581667, 7.74166748°34’54” N 7°44’30” E
Strasbourg 🇫🇷
June 26, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Welcome to France! A short stay before we head to Paris 😀 we visited Petite France today and checked out all of the older buildings. Loving the cobble streets and flowers everywhere
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Day 18
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 8:55 AM
☁️ 19 °C
Altitude: 148 m
France Cathédrale Notre-Dame 48.581667, 7.7548°34’54” N 7°45’0” E
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Strasboug Cathedral
June 27, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Quick visit to the Strasbourg Cathedral. What a beast of a thing ⛪️

Also the big clock that features a skeleton Grim Reaper guy?!

Also, Charlie? Who tf is Charlie?
Traveler Charlie 🤣🤣
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Traveler Did you get it?
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Traveler Hahah nah felt wrong 😅
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Day 18
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 12:39 PM
☁️ 22 °C
Altitude: 21 m
France Place Dauphine 48.858333, 2.34166748°51’30” N 2°20’30” E
Paris ; the city of looove
June 27, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Arrived in Paris - not gonna lie, it's kind of overhyped.

The amount of homeless people is outstanding and it smells. But nonetheless, we ventured on and did a boat cruise of the main views along the Seine River 🛥Read more
TravelerAwesome boat cruise great way to see the city
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Day 19
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 10:18 AM
☀️ 20 °C
Altitude: 140 m
France Sacré-Cœur Basilica 48.886667, 2.34333348°53’12” N 2°20’36” E
Paris - Doing tourist things
June 28, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
In the morning we visited the Sacré Coeur, Basilica. Very cool. Wernt allowed to take photos, although 99% of people were. I respected the rules to avoid possible cursage.

The wall of love ❤️ "I love you" in all different languages. Couldn't find anything familiar so enjoy a sideshow of me pointing wildly.

Sainte-Chapelle was ✨️STUNNING ✨️
very impressed. All that stained glass. Accidentally stole a post card from here I think, looks like the possibility of cursage is still high

59 Rivoli Art - this little art museum is a space where artists rent out a space to work in. You can walk around and see them working 🎨 the art on the walls and floor changes frequently depending on who is working in there.Read more
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Day 20
Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 10:00 AM
☁️ 21 °C
Altitude: 56 m
France Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) - Richelieu 48.866672, 2.33833348°52’0” N 2°20’18” E
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Paris - more tourist things
June 29, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Breakfast ✅️ absolutely delish - good avo would eat again. Not sure how the bacon was "French bacon" as it just tasted the same...

Palais Garnier - aka the Opera house. Another unreal building with unreal art on the walls and roof 🤯

Arc de Triomphe 👌👌

Petit Palais - opted for this instead of the Louvre. Im happy with my choice! So cool and all the art was incredibly old like what.

Ate snails 🐌 🐌 🐌Read more
TravelerYaaay snails
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Traveler Love!!
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TravelerWow I can't wait to visit Paris! Looks amazing 👏 😍
7/7/23Reply
TravelerDefinitely need to spend some good time there to see all the corners of it!
7/8/23Reply
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Day 21
Friday, June 30, 2023 at 8:32 AM
☁️ 16 °C
Altitude: 146 m
France Gare de Versailles - Chantiers 48.796667, 2.13333348°47’48” N 2°7’60” E
Paris - Bike Tour with Nicolas
June 30, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Biking tour of Versailles - favourite activity so far. Actually thoroughly enjoyed the full history lesson of Louie and Marie Antoinette. Tour guide was also called Nicolas (silent S) which was a hoot

And successful bike ride! Not tooooo bad at all🚲🚲Read more
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Day 21
Friday, June 30, 2023 at 9:41 PM
☁️ 19 °C
Altitude: 114 m
France Beauvais–Tillé Airport 49.459778, 2.11456849°27’35” N 2°6’52” E
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Versailles ❤️
June 30, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
More favs.

Natural on the bike I reckon
Traveler Impressive and no trainer wheels😆
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TravelerSo cool you look so proud 🚴‍♀️😊
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Gotta risk it for the thumbs up 😂👍🏻 [Sarah]
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Day 21
Friday, June 30, 2023 at 11:09 PM
☁️ 19 °C
Altitude: 42 m
France Eglise Saint-Innocents 48.860591, 2.34719948°51’38” N 2°20’50” E
Last night in Paris...the city of looove
June 30, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
3rd night of the riots I think? During the days it was absolutely fine and dandy and then as soon as the sun went down things were out the gate.

Kids aged 14-18 breaking and looting and setting fire to things - being little pests 🐛🪲Read more
TravelerWow thats unreal
7/8/23Reply
TravelerYeah it was pretty scary at first! Hearing the big booms and screams and stuff. I think it was the tear gas or something
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Day 23
Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 1:13 AM
🌙 17 °C
Altitude: 45 m
France Eglise Saint-Innocents 48.860182, 2.34778248°51’37” N 2°20’52” E
Travel day
July 2, 2023 in France ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
The 1st of July was a travel day essentially. After last night we wanted to get out of the city pretty quickly so headed out to the airport early.

No pictures so enjoy some more rioting 😅🙃

Also, ate at this really nice café! It was called the fat basted or something 👍

Off to Portugal 🇵🇹Read more
TravelerWow bet ya glad you guys got out of France
7/8/23Reply
TravelerShit yeah! Although I'm flying home from Paris haha hopefully they have sorted things by then 😅
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Day 23
Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 8:53 AM
☀️ 23 °C
Altitude: 7 m
Portugal Campo das Cebolas 38.706972, -9.13434138°42’25” N 9°8’4” W
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15hrs in Lisbon 🇵🇹
July 2, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Day packed full of exploring as we pass through Lisbon; Portugal.

90% of their houses are covered in ceramic tiles, im a big fan.

First we visited the Monastary, very cool 😎

Then we visited the Bélém tower which was super impressive but also a tourist system for sure. They had us filing in and up and around so quickly.Read more
Traveler Very random 🤔
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Traveler Look at you 3 gorgeous tourists !!!
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Day 23
Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 3:40 PM
☀️ 33 °C
Altitude: 17 m
Portugal Museu Nacional do Azulejo 38.725, -9.11333338°43’30” N 9°6’48” W
Lisbon Tile Museum
July 2, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Had my first Tuktuk ride - wild. That little kart machine thing was clocking 100 on the main road 😳 she was bumpy.

Then found the Tile museum which was amazing. All of this work was from hundreds of years ago 😨 I thought it had been printed on the tile but no, painted on! Wild.Read more
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Day 24
Monday, July 3, 2023 at 9:03 AM
⛅ 19 °C
Altitude: 67 m
Portugal Monumento a Dom Pedro IV 41.146667, -8.61166741°8’48” N 8°36’42” W
Porto 🇵🇹
July 3, 2023 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Another pit stop, Porto!
This place was beautiful, the people were so lovely and the sights 👌👌

We did a river cruise to learn about the different parts, got a bit cloudy/foggy there for a minute but back to sunshine.

We went to the "world's most beautiful bookshop" - it waaas pretty beautiful, have to agree there. And checked out the Cathedral who's outside walls are tiles!

Had my first port thing, pretty good 👍Read more
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Day 25
Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 7:20 AM
☀️ 20 °C
Altitude: 626 m
Spain Sabatini Gardens 40.42, -3.71333340°25’12” N 3°42’48” W
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Madrid 🇪🇸
July 4, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Welcome to Madrid!
This is my favourite place so far, low key would move here 🛩

Day one was a full day touring around the different villages in Madrid. First stop, Àvila. We saw some unreal architecture and art. The men here make all of the traditional jewelry by hand, not exactly sure how but it was cool.

Also, 3 course meal for €14, what a banger.
Lunch with a viewRead more
TravelerAmazing!!!
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Traveler How real does this painting look! Wild
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Day 25
Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 3:12 PM
☀️ 28 °C
Altitude: 1,123 m
Spain Basílica de San Vicente 40.658333, -4.69666740°39’30” N 4°41’48” W
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Madrid pt2
July 4, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
This place was out the gate. Don't know why I continue to be surprised...

Some Segovia here. See that wall, that was built in the year 100 like what? Still going strong 💪

See those arches? Also built extremely early. These people were smart. To transfer water from outside of the city they built this, let gravity do the work. They used this system right until 1960. Also, it's not even stuck together with anything, no morter or concrete or glue or nothing! Just held together with the pressure???Read more
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Day 26
Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 10:20 AM
Altitude: 659 m
Spain Teatro de la Zarzuela 40.416667, -3.69666740°25’0” N 3°41’48” W
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Madrid Exploration
July 5, 2023 in Spain
Today the girls went to another art gallery, I opted out and decided to do some exploring and pretend I was living the Madrid life. Not gonna lie, 2 people asked me for directions! Local.

I clocked 20k steps by 1pm 😅

Had the best home made peanut butter on toast ever!Read more
TravelerIs that banana with the peanut butter on toast?
7/12/23Reply
Traveler You local 😂🤣 living your best life 😊
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Day 27
Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 9:13 AM
☁️ 25 °C
Altitude: 37 m
Spain Plaça de la Sagrada Família 41.403333, 2.17333341°24’12” N 2°10’24” E
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Sagrada Familia
July 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
We did a guided tour of the Sagrada Familia - super amazing and the history that goes into the build is intense.
Still not complete, hence the scaffolding. And the end design has changed a bunch of times but still looks pretty cool. This Cathedral looks pretty different in terms of design, the roof is meant to look like tall palm trees.
Also, the stained glass windows, each wall is based on the different seasons of the year so all very different!
And the stairwell down was steep and curvy and long, not a fan 🙃Read more
Traveler Like your in a fairytale 😊
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Day 27
Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 11:13 AM
☁️ 27 °C
Altitude: 41 m
Spain Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403333, 2.17541°24’12” N 2°10’30” E
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More SF
July 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Honestly! V beautiful
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Day 27
Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 12:08 PM
☁️ 28 °C
Altitude: 49 m
Spain Casa Batlló 41.391667, 2.16541°23’30” N 2°9’54” E
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Casa Battlo
July 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
The man who worked on the Sagrada Familia liver here! I love it ❤️ everything was tuned into something, there was nothing ordinary about it.
Traveler Love it !!
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Day 27
Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 1:20 PM
☁️ 28 °C
Altitude: 49 m
Spain Casa Batlló 41.391667, 2.16541°23’30” N 2°9’54” E
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Battlo again
July 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Just the ending of this beautiful museum!

The last part of the attraction was this 3D art - before entering they asked if anyone was clostraphobic but I low key feel like they should have asked about epilepsy or something because woah.

Also, neurodiverse individuals work in this museum and also support the creation of the newer art pieces! E.g., the 3D thingRead more
Traveler So cool 🙃 I like your pants 😊
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Day 28
Friday, July 7, 2023 at 8:50 AM
☀️ 25 °C
Altitude: 34 m
Spain Museu Diocesà 41.385, 2.17666741°23’6” N 2°10’36” E
Barcelona 😎
July 7, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Feeling super welcomed into Barcelona with these graffiti tags all around 🙃

We did lots of walking today and saw the government building, the Cathedral area and surrounds and the beach! Very busy beach, pretty warm water.

Also, the boy/people doing number 2's is apparently a symbol for Barcelona? Apparently meaning like freedom or something? I dont get itRead more
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Day 28
Friday, July 7, 2023 at 8:07 PM
☀️ 26 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Spain Port Fòrum 41.411667, 2.2241°24’42” N 2°13’12” E
Cruilla ; Offspring
July 7, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
These guys were as expected - excellent.
I forget that people get old, kinda shook me.

Great time tho! Ignore the singing on my part, clearly thought I was backup
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Day 28
Friday, July 7, 2023 at 8:07 PM
☀️ 26 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Spain Port Fòrum 41.411667, 2.2241°24’42” N 2°13’12” E
Cruilla ; Franz Fernandez
July 7, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
The mosh pits just have so much room! It's great.
These guys came on about midnight
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Day 28
Friday, July 7, 2023 at 8:07 PM
☀️ 26 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Spain Port Fòrum 41.411667, 2.2241°24’42” N 2°13’12” E
Cruilla ; Alt-j
July 7, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Went to a festival by myself, finished at 5am 😅😅 definitely worth it though. New Zealand needs to follow suit with how these festivals are run I think 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️

Didn't take any photos, so please enjoy a couple cringe videos of my fav actsRead more
TravelerWow go you !! How much fun its that!!
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