Here be Dragons. . . .

 Very few words to spare today, so I rummaged through the travel photos and wondered if you’d let me share some dragon sightings. I spotted these fellows in Barcelona this past spring,  right across the…

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Travel Budget — Hotels, Part II

As I’m making reservations, planning connections, booking rooms, and doing all the lovely research for our next trip, I thought that before I tell you where we’re going, I’ll show-and-tell three more budget hotels we’ve…

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It’s the Weekend! More France!

I’m off to my stylist’s for a cut-and-colour refresher, then we’ll head to Vancouver for the weekend  A huge batch of marking to get through, but interrupted by some Nola time, a seawall run, and…

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Surprising Beauty . . .

In my recent post on the Metz Pompidou Centre, I mentioned Mark Kingwell’s meditations on cities and architecture, particularly his thoughts on thresholds. I suspect Kingwell would have something to say about the location of…

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September Dreaming Spring . . . French Spring . . .

Although I love where I live, especially when Orcas swim by. and although I appreciate September’s cooling days with the return to classes, meeting new students, greeting my colleagues again, my thoughts do sometimes drift…

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