”In Italy life is a combination of magic and pasta.” Federico Fellini The photo from our excellent Regent Cruise in the Mediterranean is of the fishing fleet in Sanury Sur Mer. A very pretty Frenc...Read More
It was sad to see the ashes of Notre Dame Cathedral. It was even sadder to see the graffiti all over Paris. It looks like the French have surrendered to this scourge of our times. It makes me very sad...Read More
If you look carefully at the photo above near the center you can see the round towers of a Norman castle. The photo was taken from the patio of our wonderful rental house in Charnay. Here is the castl...Read More
Part Two: Markets The boulangerie in Charnay was wonderful. Amazing fresh baked bread and croissants twice a day. Of course I didn’t get a picture of it or the bread. But I did take some wonderf...Read More
Pleasant surprises are the spice of life. On our tour in Normandy with Country Walkers we had several extremely pleasant surprises. One was on the second day when they they told us in the briefing tha...Read More
A person who speaks many languages is multilingual A person who speaks three languages is trilingual A person who speaks two languages is bilingual...Read More
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson Having read quite a few histories of the 20th Century including a run of Winston Churchill books in 2018 I was pleased to hear about Jackson’s De Gaulle biography. It...Read More
