Archive for 2007
Jun 21st, 2007
Still Here
This is just a quick note to say I’m still here and still intend to upload photos and comments about the trip, but I have not had any free time in the past couple of weeks to work on my photos. I’ve put together a rough slide show, which, after I clean up a bit, I will upload here in three or four parts.
I’ve scanned in some of my travel sketches as well, and will put those up when I get the chance. Maybe Monday.
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Jun 6th, 2007
Back To Reality
We got home last night at around 10:30 after spending way to much time on planes and transferring between planes and getting to airports. The cats were very pleased to see us, but were well looked after while we were gone.
I have many thoughts on our trip and of course a couple thousand photos to troll through looking for gold. I’ll get started on that right away. I’ll post more about our trip (and perhaps a few of the small number of sketches I did) this weekend after I’ve had a bit of time to decompress and unpack and do all the returning to normal life things that one must do after a long trip.
Including starting the planning for our next trip: Mexico! But that trip is a long way off.
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Jun 1st, 2007
Having a Nice time
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May 29th, 2007
This time from Provence
Hello all, sorry we've dropped off the radar but we've been moving around a bit and have been unable to get to an Internet cafe.
We are currently in Vaison-la-Romain and spent the day driving around the indescribably beautiful Cote du Rohn countryside stopping at a number of cute little medieval hill towns, not forgetting of course to do a little wine tasting along the way.
This morning we awoke to the sounds of the weekly market setting up in the square below our window. We bought a picnic lunch to take with us on the drive and ate it in the tiny town of Suzette on the side of a hill overlooking vineyards. The sun was out and shinning but the wind was blowing hard and threatened to carry away our lunch.
In the past week we have visited Avignon, where we stayed for three nights and used as a base to travel. We day tripped out to Pont du Gard, an old roman aqueduct, and Nimes where we rolled into town during the annul bullfight festival (not listed in any guide book, Gretchen). The town was hopping and we had a nice lunch of Paella for Irene and Gardienne de toreau (bull) for me.
Another day we drove to Arles and spent the day, and yesterday we visited the abandoned medieval town of Les Beaux, and the not so abandoned town named after my cat, St. Remy.
Well, that about catches you up. Tomorrow we head for Roussillon and the Luberon hill towns made famous (at least in the states) by Peter Mayle in his books about Provence.
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May 24th, 2007
Last Day In Paris
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