A Lyon Postcard — Au Marché

Less down-time this trip, which is considerably less “Slow” than I prefer, especially because of the complications of the train strike. Our bus travel to Lyon from Paris went well enough, but took much more…

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Another Paris Postcard: Bad News/Good News

So, let’s start with the bad news, and get that out of the way. . . Yes, against our faint hopes, our train tomorrow has been cancelled due to the SNCF work action. Luckily, we’d…

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Postcard from Paris

We’re happily settled in our familiar hotel in Paris (such a warm welcome — the front desk clerk came out to give me a big hug! — made us up a tisane and then asked…

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April Showers in Portland or Paris or Wherever You Want to Imagine Them . . .

 The Granddad (Pater) and I are doing some significant waiting today. Can’t tell you more for the moment,  but I can share these photos I took in Portland last month (so yes, technically these were…

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Walking in Portland)

We’re off on a short family-oriented road trip this week; I’ll tell you a bit more about destination and motivation later. For now, I still have a few more photos I haven’t shown you from…

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