For years, I’d admired photographs of the purple lavender fields in front of the stark-grey Notre-Dame de Sénanque, a Cistercian abbey in Provence. With our time in Paris dwindling, and with the lavender season a brief mid-summer event, if I… Read More ›
It didn’t make sense; Dinan was not listed as a stop on the 5:30 train from Rennes to Saint Malo. Yet our ticket was for 5:30, and this was the only train leaving the station at that time. Pat and… Read More ›
Since we have a tiny kitchen in our tiny Paris apartment, I shop for food everyday, and generally right at meal time. Fortunately, we live near foodie heaven: The Rue Oberkampf.
Alzheimers disease runs in my family. Research claims that learning a second language is one of the best ways to stave off dementia. This is just one more reason to love our life in Paris!
It started, as many things do in Ireland, at the pub on a Saturday night. The next morning, Pat and I set out from our home in Courtmacsherry. Since it was a sunny, mid-50s January day, we decided to… Read More ›
The World In Between 