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UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 29 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [24]
It rained hard on Thursday and Saturday’s forecast isn’t much better. Today would be the best day for birding at Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve. It took us a half-hour for he eight-mile drive on England’s narrow, winding ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 26 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [55]
The temperature was forecast to never get much above freezing so we bundled up for the walk to Earl’s Court Underground station. Thirty minutes later we were at Russell Square with only a short walk to the British Museum.
The Museum ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 25 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [59]
The Eurostar “Chunnel” train from Paris to London may cost a bit more than flying but it is much more civilized. We cleared both EU and UK immigration at Gare du Lyon in Paris, carried our own luggage onto the train and were in London in ... Read more >
FRANCE | Saturday, 22 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [24]
Connie had had a list of places in Metz that she wanted to visit, most important and—as it turned out—the most impressive Metz Cathedral and Musée de la Coeur d’Or. I picked our AirBnB less on location and price but because it ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 20 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [20]
When we bade adieu to Alsace this morning and headed off for Lorraine we weren’t counting on snow! Thankfully, it didn’t stick to the roads and it did pretty-up the drive to Nancy. We had spent the night here in twenty-eleven but hadn’... Read more >
FRANCE | Wednesday, 19 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [24]
We considered returning to Colmar today—the sun was shining and we wanted to see our favorite town in its glory. When we realized that Colmar’s neighbor, Eguisheim, was on the list of “Les Plus Beaux Villages de France,” we re-... Read more >
FRANCE | Tuesday, 18 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [22]
Clement’s AirBnB has everything we need including a garage barely wide enough for our car. Rather than futzing with the car we walked the 1½ miles to old town to get reacquainted with one of our favorite cities.
We crossed the ... Read more >
FRANCE | Monday, 17 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [20]
Alsace is one of our favorite areas in France—and not only because Connie’s family has an Alsatian heritage going back to Napoleonic times. When we first visited in 2011, distant relatives, Nicole and Thaddeus, treated us to a tour of the ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sunday, 16 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [30]
I had almost forgotten our 2015 “drive by” visit to Citadel in Besançon. This time we’ll stay for a few days, if only to break up the six-hour drive from Lyon to Strasbourg. Traffic and parking being what they are, we decided ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 13 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [49]
Around 910, William I, Duke of Aquitaine “The Pious” founded the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny with the “no strings” donation of his hunting preserve. The monastery would be free from any future obligations to him and his ... Read more >
