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I'm going to be retroactively posting here over the next couple days about our honeymoon and the places we saw and the things we did, but I'll be starting with this post about the most important thing: Food. BOGO Drinks, First meal in London, Day 1 BOGO Drinks and Mexican, Day 1 Molly has her first Pasty after Platform 9 3/4, Night 1 Lunch At the Tate Modern, Day 2 Lunch At The Tate Modern, Day 2 Lunch At The Tate Modern, Day 2 Indian Food, Night 2 British Pub Grub, Day 3 Ethiopian Food, Night 3 Twix McFlurry, Night 3 Lunch in Stratford Upon Avon, after Shakespeare's Birthplace, Day 4 Cocktails and Wine, Night 4 Italian Food, Last Night in London, Night 4 (This was one of the Top 3 meals of the trip, so delicious!) Chocolate for Dessert, Night 4 This is where we leave London for Paris. Quick Breakfast and Train Station Lunch. Escargot, First Meal in Paris, Night 5 (I was afraid to snap photos in this restauran...

Today was strictly set aside as a travel day, we needed to catch a train from Paris to Barcelona, and that ride alone was set to take close to 6 hours. So we bought some last minute souvenirs in Paris, stocked up on snacks, and hit the train station. Weird thing: They never checked our tickets on the train until after we left the first stop, which was easily 100km out from Paris. We could have free-loaded on this train and no one would have even noticed, much less said anything. And where this was between two real EU countries (sorry, England), there was no security check or passport check, just off you go! Photo of the French Countryside on the way to Barcelona. Arriving in Barcelona, I picked a hotel immediately across the street from the train station, to make travel into and out of Barcelona super fast, and it worked out well for us. We grabbed some dinner at a restaurant a couple blocks down the road and called it a night. Joe

We started this morning off by walking down to the cafe where we had breakfast the morning before, because there was a street artist who had been working on some new art, but wasn't going to be finished until later in the day. Instead of taking a photo at night, we just waited for the morning, and it looks super rad! We then hopped the first train that would take us to Versailles, and Versailles also just so happens to be a band that I used to listen to back in the day, so what better place to listen to Versailles than at Versailles! The one major problem, my fault 100%, I wanted to get to Versailles as early as possible and forgot to feed Molly breakfast. We ate at the fancy restaurant on the property, but it was worth it, that cheese plate Molly had looked delicious. Words honestly can't describe how beautiful Versailles is, nor can they describe the size of the property. Versailles is 3 Square Miles. Downtown Boston, aka "Original 1630 Boston," is only 1....

I can't recommend enough 2 simple things when you travel: Public Transit passes and Museum/Multi-Day passes to a city. We knew Paris had cheap public transit, but we didn't realize how easy it was to get around everywhere on a single-ride ticket. The Paris Metro allows you to buy 10 single-trip tickets at a go, a 20€ cost, and you can split them across as many people as you want (10/2=5 Trips for the both of us!) Turns out this is all we'll actually need for our 2.5 days in Paris (exception, special train ticket out and back from Versailles). The Museum Pass for Paris is stupidly efficient as well, it folds down to the size of a pack of gum, or a Tic-Tacs container, and gives access to something like 60 museums in Paris and the surrounding area for only 48€. Our first day alone we paid the pass off with all the stops we went to, so essentially 2 full days in Paris, travel and museums: 60€/person. SOLID. Our first stop was at the Museum that shares our name, The ...