I’ve recently had a couple of conversations with friends of friends who were directed to this blog because they’re gearing … More
Category: France
Where we are not moving: La Rochelle
Let me back up a moment and say oh hey, we’re moving ! The situation in Paris with our noisy … More
Out of the frying pan and into the lap of luxury
I feel like the future is simultaneously wide open and closed down. I’m not talking globally, though that’s certainly the … More
A quest for confinement number 3: the baguette
What is left when everything has gone south? The pleasures of Paris are closed up once again, in compliance with … More
Avignon again
For as much as I love thinking of myself quasi-nomadic, I sure like to talk to myself about someday settling … More
Towns of the Knights Templar
I keep getting my socks knocked off by the hilly backcountry north of Montpellier. On a tongue-in-cheek map of France … More
A one-way ticket to Paris
I love that sense-sharpened feeling of arriving in a new place. Taking it all in, eyes wide open, as you … More
Hiking in the Hérault*
We made it back to Mourèze, a town I’d mentioned in my last post, and you know what? I still … More
Head for the hills: in the foothills of the Cévennes
Enamored of our driver’s licenses and motivated by a sense of the clock ticking down on our time here in … More
This is Nice
Woo-hoo, we’ve been sprung!* Almost the second the second confinement was lifted, we got out of town, fleeing the classic … More