Sweet home Paris

I once had an experience that I would call the thrill of the familiar. When we first moved to Paris,…

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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…

I love that sense-sharpened feeling of arriving in a new place. Taking it all in, eyes wide open, as you…

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This is another rescued snippet from the old Tumblr I’m clearing out. May 2017 We’ve gotten lazy, 7+ months into…

We made it back to Mourèze, a town I’d mentioned in my last post, and you know what? I still…

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Enamored of our driver’s licenses and motivated by a sense of the clock ticking down on our time here in…

In the absence of going places, I’m thinking about things again. The Atlantic had an article where a self-proclaimed clutter…

Woo-hoo, we’ve been sprung!* Almost the second the second confinement was lifted, we got out of town, fleeing the classic…

There will be no Xmas tree this year as we’re off visiting Nice (not that we’re the deck-the-halls types anyway).…

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Walkway signs: the world’s unloved street art