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A Day in Giverny and Vernon, France
From the Saint Lazare train station, I caught the 7:18 to Vernon. My destination was Claude Monet’s home in Giverny. I planned this trip the night before, a solo adventure on the last day before a heat wave descended on… Read More ›
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The Michelin Star
It’s no surprise that when I fell for a man in Paris he was wearing a tall white hat. For years, I stacked cookbooks on my bedside table and read them before I fell asleep. Saturday morning, I set off… Read More ›
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Paris, Movies, Popcorn and Growing Older
In the Unites States, Pat and I rarely went to the movies, but now, it’s an indulgence. To bask in English. To understand every word, grasp the nuance, and laugh at the jokes. Otherwise, going to the movies is a thinly… Read More ›
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A Return to Aix en Provence, France
Aix en Provence and I go back more than twenty years to a time when I was living in North Carolina, raising three kids, and working with a team in La Gaude, France. The first trip I made to the… Read More ›
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So You Want to Move to Paris….
Last week, I noticed a spike in my blog statistics. I can’t tell who looked at my blog, but I could see that several were from the Fodor’s travel forum. For those of you unfamiliar with this forum, it’s a… Read More ›
The World In Between 