The drama of lost luggage ended happily Friday when we returned to Marseille airport and successfully collected our bags that arrived on the evening flight from Brussels the night prior. I never want to look at the accidental thong underwear again. David and I were last in Nîmes in January, 2023. The first winter that…
Category: Travel
Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs*: Seattle, WA
I am three months late in writing this post. We visited Seattle, Washington in December 2013, but by the time we returned home, I was over it! But now, faced with the sad reality that I won’t be travelling anywhere for the conceivable future, I thought I’d better get these pictures up. I’ve broken my…
Manhattan
We were in Manhattan over the Labour Day weekend to attend the anniversary party of a good friend. She and her husband married last September, but waited until this year to throw an amazing party, held at Top of the Garden on West 30th Street. This was my second trip to NYC, and like the…
Le Reservoir Baskatong (Quebec)
It’s a bit of a Canadian cliché to camp or go “up to the cottage” in the summer. Personally, I hate camping in a tent (the bugs, the musty sleeping bags, walking a mile to the filthy showers and scary toilets…) and suffered through enough summer camping trips as a child that I was convinced I hated…
Verdun, France
On Wednesday the 13th, we rented a car in Reims and drove to Verdun to visit the battlefields (Champs de Bataille) of the Battle of Verdun, a terrible and prolonged WWI battle waged between the French and German armies between February and December, 1916. According to what we learned at the Memorial Musee de Verdun…
MEMORIES LIE... 