Bordeaux Postcards and Slow Travel. . .

It’s just the light that’s stopped me here. “Just” the light! 😉 I’m still mulling a bit here, sorting out what it was I’d hoped to get from this trip, trying to balance that with…

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Of Airplane Travel and a Francophile’s Vintage Treasures. . .

Since we last met here, I’ve flown over the Tyrennhian and then the Ligurian seas, the island of Corsica, all bathed in sunshine. . . flown over the Alps into France, deeper and deeper into…

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Postcards from Lyon — Delayed in Transit. . .

 I don’t know how you’re faring this morning, but I need some respite from ugly news. So I’m heading back to the Basilica up the hill in Lyon’s Fourvière district. When I visited this late…

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More Lyon: A Page from my Travel Journal

The frustration involved in sketching this page — which I’m now quite pleased with — doesn’t show, unless you notice the murky marks of erasure, the dirt that’s adhered to hand oils after too much…

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Words and Images in Lyon

 These cartoons, created for World Book Day 2018 by a host of international cartoonists, were displayed in a square we walked through in Lyon this past May.  You’ll have to squint a bit to read…

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