{"id":405,"date":"2012-04-01T13:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T21:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2012-04-01T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T21:41:21","slug":"bon-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Bon Voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today begins the start of our two-week journey to B\u00c3\u00a9ziers, Paris, London, and Rouen!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/7033740107\/\" title=\"Phoenix to London by dylans, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7038\/7033740107_f5a10c876e.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Phoenix to London\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/6887858458\/\" title=\"TripIt Overview by dylans, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7243\/6887858458_92d556e10f.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"TripIt Overview\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons for this trip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web-5.org\/en\/\">Web-5 conference<\/a> invite. I&#8217;m invited to deliver the opening keynote on April 4th<\/li>\n<li>Leita&#8217;s French heritage. This is her first ever trip to France!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/londonajax.com\/\">London Ajax User Group<\/a>. I helped start this group when I was living part-time in London, now I&#8217;m back to deliver a pair of talks with James Thomas about AMD, and to show Leita a few highlights of London.<\/li>\n<li>A Fun Vacation. It&#8217;s been many years since I took a vacation where I wasn&#8217;t trying to work every moment that I wasn&#8217;t checking out a tourist site.<\/li>\n<li>And more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re starting our journey on British Airways, in the lovely Club World. As the only airline with a non-stop flight to Europe, we&#8217;re lucky enough to have seats on the upper deck in part due to my about to expire BA Gold status. We then have a short flight across the channel to Paris. To get to B\u00c3\u00a9ziers, Rouen, and back to London, we&#8217;re taking the train so we can see more of the French countryside.<\/p>\n<p>To make this trip as amazing for Leita as possible, we did far more advanced preparation than normal: travel books (mostly Rick Steve&#8217;s) an extensive TripIt itinerary, French 1 lessons from Pimsleur, a museum pass, train tickets, etc. We found a cute little flat to stay at in the Montmarte region of Paris via AirBnb.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been careful to plan without over planning the trip, by giving ourselves many ideas and options, but leaving plenty of time open for random strolls and cafes. And we&#8217;ve managed to pack pretty lightly so we&#8217;re not lugging massive suitcases on the various trains.<\/p>\n<p>We leave tonight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today begins the start of our two-week journey to B\u00c3\u00a9ziers, Paris, London, and Rouen! There are many reasons for this trip: Web-5 conference invite. I&#8217;m invited to deliver the opening keynote on April 4th Leita&#8217;s French heritage. This is her first ever trip to France! London Ajax User Group. I helped start this group when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[61,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}