Planning ahead

I mentioned last weekend that flight/hotel bookings had been made. The travel doesn’t begin ’til mid-June, but meanwhile, here’s the itinerary. Fly into city represented by photo above, spend several days revisiting favourite spots and…

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From tranquility to travel horror . . .

Does that not look like a delicious breakfast I might have had in France? In fact, in the last five years of visiting Paris, we haven’t come across cafe au lait served in bols, comme…

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little charms in Paris

So here’s the first of the Paris windows I promised you — although I appreciate the monumental and the iconic here, it’s as often the more everyday, smaller pleasures that delight me. The art that…

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EuroStar!

These are shots from St. Pancreas train station in London — in my admittedly limited experience, this is my favourite train station by far — it’s really a beautiful space and it’s clean and well-serviced…

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Brollies, anyone?

If I’d known how rainy it was going to be in Paris, perhaps I would have done more than ooh and ahh at the possibilities in this London window — what an array of gorgeous…

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