http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Seefahrt/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Seefahrt en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:32:21 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:32:21 +0000 CiaoWe took an early morning train out of Paris to Venice. We were forced to travel 1st class because 2nd class was sold out. We decided to plan ahead a little and had actual train and hotel reservations. The ride was beautiful. We had 15min to change trains in Milan. This was concerning to me from the very beginning. Well our train was late by about 12minutes. We ran from track 1 to trac http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/blog-338543.html We arrived in Paris early on the 21st. We had no reservations wanting to be spontaneous. We got a tip from a gal on the plane for a nice inexpensive hotel that still had rooms available and was close to the Arc de Triomphe. Great we would head that way. Traveling just with backpacks we left the airport via train to the metro. We came out from underground into Paris We were exhausted an http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-338339.html As many of you know we are back in Flagstaff. My mother underwent open heart surgery and we have been here recovering her. She is doing fantastic and we hope to fly to Europe on Oct 20th. We had an amazing 2 months in the SanJaun Gulf and Vancouver Islands. We sailed sometimes motored to over 17 different locations. For the most part the weather was good and things went smoothly. Just an http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Flagstaff/blog-333309.html Here we are again quite delinquent on any recent site additions. What can we say We have been busy traveling on the 'Fahrt'. There has been some internet access issues but mostly our time has been taken up with sailing running and hiking eating ice cream and watching seals orcas and lots of birds. Madison did manage to catch the only fish so far it was ugly too.We left Anacortes on ju http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/San-Juan-Islands/San-Juan-Island/blog-317315.html We are here in Anacortes Washington sitting in the Seefahrt. The Seefahrt is our newly purchased Nor'Sea 27 a sailboat. We are not sure of the names origin and were originally going to change it but the name has really grown on us. We picked the boat up in Santa Cruz and hauled her up here to Anacortes. We stopped to see lots of friends and family along the way. When I first saw http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Anacortes/blog-303647.html