USA | Thursday, 26 Nov 2015 | Views [390]
THANKSGIVING DAY AND WE ARE SNUG and warm in our new RV, despite the snowy and cold weather. Two hundred forty square feet may not seem like much to those of you living in your McMansions but after nearly five years of hotel rooms, ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 20 Nov 2015 | Views [312]
NO, WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS, TOTO, BUT IOWA isn’t that much different. It’s so flat here that it doesn’t take a lot of snow to make a blizzard. Just wind, and Bella (When exactly did they start naming winter storms?) ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 14 Nov 2015 | Views [421]
WHERE TO START? We have been home for three weeks now. Well, not exactly “home” — but in the USA at least. We still feel like strangers in a strange land. We are still surprised that overheard conversations ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 30 Oct 2015 | Views [357]
THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME CONFUSION about our previous entry. Our trip isn't TOTALLY over — we're just in another country, the USA. After breakfast in Paris, lunch in Reykjavik, and dinner in Colorado — no wonder we’re confused.... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 29 Oct 2015 | Photo Gallery
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FRANCE | Saturday, 24 Oct 2015 | Views [446]
LYON MUST BE THE STAIR-MASTER OF FRANCE: everything seems to be uphill or down. And a river runs through it — two rivers, actually, the Rhone and Saone, separated by the peninsula of Presqu’ile where we are staying. Lyon is supposedly ... Read more >
FRANCE | Saturday, 17 Oct 2015 | Views [447]
ACTUALLY IT’S PRONOUNCED “NIECE” AND “EASE” but it really is nice and easy. Nice may be the fifth largest city in France but we couldn’t find lodging there that met all or our needs; parking, it seems, costs ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 15 Oct 2015 | Views [412]
ET DIEU CREA LA FEMME. And God Created Woman . These five words — and the sex kitten Brigette Bardot — transformed the sleepy fishing village of St. Tropez into a port-of-call for celebrities and jet-setters. No longer ... Read more >
FRANCE | Friday, 9 Oct 2015 | Views [448]
ARLES AND AVIGNON HAVE THREE THINGS in common. It’s obvious that each begins with the letter “ A ,” and both are in Provence on the Rhone River. Arles and Avignon also have a history with Rome. Arles became an important ... Read more >
FRANCE | Wednesday, 7 Oct 2015 | Views [410]
ORANGE SOLVED TWO PROBLEMS FOR THE ROMANS. It was a perfect place to pension off loyal Roman officers and their presence would be a deterrent to those pesky Gauls who continued to tweak the Roman nose. The main sites are the city arch, not ... Read more >
FRANCE | Monday, 5 Oct 2015 | Views [351]
THE FIRST RUMBLES OF THUNDER had scarcely died when Patoo, all 50+ bouvier kilos of her, whimpered at our door. We knew we shouldn’t let her in but she looked so wretched we could hardly resist. Isobel soon returned from the Saturday ... Read more >
FRANCE | Friday, 2 Oct 2015 | Views [450]
PICASSO HAD NOTHING WITTY OR SELF-DEPRECATING to say about the prehistoric cave paintings at Caverne Pont d’Arc as he did with Lascaux and Alta Mira. He had been dead, after all, for more than 20 years when they were re-discovered ... Read more >
FRANCE | Tuesday, 29 Sep 2015 | Views [376]
AUTUMN MAY NOT BE THE BEST TIME TO VISIT the French Alps. Summer is over and ski season is months away. Many of the hotels and restaurants close from mid-September until December — even hoteliers need vacations — so we are bunked ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sunday, 27 Sep 2015 | Views [439]
THE BEAUNE SATURDAY MARKET WAS IN FULL SWING. Roasting meat and garlic perfumed the air. Fruit, vegetables, cheeses and everything imaginable was for sale in the street stalls. Except wine. You had to go into the “caves”... Read more >
FRANCE | Thursday, 24 Sep 2015 | Views [398]
SUMMER’S LAST DAYS, SAVE FOR A FEW FLASHES, were dreary and wet. But today, the first day of autumn, dawned spectacularly. Woodsmoke perfumed the morning chill while redstarts and tits — crested tits, long-tailed tits and ... Read more >
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