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Cool Bloggers Walking Club April 2026: Week 3

  • Cool Bloggers Walking Club, Euro Adventure, Exercise
  • Apr 24, 2026
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There’s not much preamble from me this time around. It is Saturday and I am mostly off from parenting duties. I’ll make sure to fit in my daily walk, THROUGH THE SNOW. I’m trying to pretend there isn’t actually white stuff falling from the sky in late April. BLOG FRIEND WALKY WALKS Nicole: Just our…

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A Special Guest Post by Belle: Top Five/Bottom Five Movies

While I might have hoped my kids would inherit my love of reading, they have instead inherited their father’s love of movies.

Especially Belle.

Before I had posted her Top Five/Bottom Five about me (see…

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  • Guest Post, Top Five/Bottom Five
  • Apr, 24, 2026
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Happy Things Friday: 24 April

This time last week we were still on our road trip, and now we’re settling into life in Helsinki.

Modern travel is wild.

The world is temporarily our proverbial oyster.

Out on our first real…

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  • Apr, 24, 2026
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Epic Europe Road Trip Day Two (Zurich): Lindt Chocolate Factory + Walking Tour

After a very busy first day, everyone was relieved to not set any early-morning alarms. We ended up waking up earlier than expected which felt like a bonus… but emotions ended up running high.

I…

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  • Euro Adventure, Road Trip, Travel
  • Apr, 23, 2026
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Potpourri from Helsinki

I can’t tell you how many times over the last few weeks I’ve thought: I want to blog about this random thing… and then didn’t have access to my laptop.

I’m taking that as…

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  • Travel, Euro Adventure, Helsinki, Random
  • Apr, 22, 2026
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Epic Europe Road Trip Day One: Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, & Switzerland

Well… that was epic.

In less than seven days, we drove over 2,200 kilometers through eight different countries. Fun fact that I only learned on our road trip: the Alps span eight countries, and…

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  • Road Trip, Euro Adventure
  • Apr, 22, 2026
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Visiting the Schönbrunn Palace Easter Market in Vienna

We came across a few Easter markets randomly in various cities here in Europe and I was impressed.

Then we went to Schönbrunn Palace and they blew the rest of them out of the water….

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  • Travel, Euro Adventure, Vienna
  • Apr, 21, 2026
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