Hiking A Castle Walk SimonJuly 22, 20190 If you look carefully at the photo above near the center you can see the round towers of a Norman castle. The photo was...
Travel French Food Two SimonJuly 21, 20190 Part Two: Markets The boulangerie in Charnay was wonderful. Amazing fresh baked bread and croissants twice a day. Of...
Travel French Food One SimonJuly 20, 20192 Part One: Meals We ate a lot of good meals in France and I failed to take photos of most of them. Thanks to Gordon C....
Simon Says Surprises SimonJuly 18, 20190 Pleasant surprises are the spice of life. On our tour in Normandy with Country Walkers we had several extremely...
Humor War is Hell SimonJuly 15, 20190 "For many months We have fought together often on the same side." A World War II general speaking about the...
Humor Language Lessons SimonJuly 13, 20190 A person who speaks many languages is multilingual A person who speaks three languages is trilingual A person who...
Hiking Serendipity In April SimonMay 8, 20190 April 2019 serendipity number one. Visiting the Rose Garden at the Huntington Library at the peak of the first...
Travel Directed Travel SimonApril 30, 20190 In March I wrote a series of entries about travel Here, Here and Here. I had started with the idea that an awful lot of...
Codger Divers Invasive Species SimonApril 9, 20190 In April I went diving in Roatan, Honduras with the Codger Divers. We had a great trip with excellent camaraderie...