The Richards Family

A few of my friends have commented that my posts about our month long travel adventure were all ‘very happy’. Just a few notes on that: overall, we did have a wonderful time traveling together. If any of you reading get the opportunity and ability to travel like we did, with our kids the ages [...]

Part of our family time together would be categorized as ‘life lessons from dad’. Dave has been engaging the kids in all kinds of topics: PDA’s, relationships, lifestyle, money, culture, etc. We have had a fun time with most of our conversations and now the kids joke about Dave and his ‘life lessons’ Feel free [...]

The Richards fam arrived safely home today around 1:30 pm. Thanks to Lisa and Becca for picking us up at the airport We left Madrid in European time zone at 4 am this morning. Lovely start to a somewhat long travel day, but all went well. I’ve written a post about our last few days [...]

Hola. We are having a good time in Barcelona. We hung out at the beach yesterday afternoon for a few hours and enjoyed lounging about, playing in the sea, people watching and reading. It was probably the most crowded beach that we have spent time at so far on our adventure and the dirtiest, in [...]

On Friday morning we headed into Nice and Nate’s comment later was, ‘ Nice (niece) is Nice ’ We drove into the city in the morning along the Boulevard des Anglais, found a parking spot in a garage, and then wandered about the old town, had lunch in an italian restaurant (the kids had a [...]

Here are some photo highlights so far from our trip: View Photos

Yesterday morning we woke the kids up early to head off to Monaco and MonteCarlo. We were attempting to drive into a town called Cagnes-sur-Mer, where it was recommended we hop on a train and go into Monaco that way. Well, the 20 minute drive to the station ended up taking an hour, and then, [...]

If any of you have watched the reality show, ‘The Amazing Race’ you should know that I would suck at being a participant in that show. I don’t do well with being lost, not being able to read a map and having our GPS affectionately known as, Garmin, not be able to tell us where [...]

Yesterday afternoon we headed out to a beach on the mediterranean called ‘Juan les Pins’ which is just outside, or around the corner, from the city of Antibes. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, the wind was blowing and there were some really fun rolling waves. The morning had been a mix of thunder showers, [...]

If you ever need to, or want to be in Milan, I recommend the hotel Gran Duka di York. We found it it in one of the books we have on Milan and it was a great hotel for our fam of 5. Good location, style, room, price, a/c and buffet breakfast. We arrived at [...]