We’ve been here almost two months now and we’ve come to know our French “home town” pretty well. We’re kind of known - the folks at the boulangerie know I’ll be every day or so and know that, though I order almost the same thing every time, I will still slaughter their language. It really does feel like home now....
(Full post)Some years ago, on our first stay in Paris, I read about a boat ride on Canal St. Martin. We decided that it would be a perfect first-day, recovering-from-jet-lag activity for that trip: two and a half hours of sitting and floating through an interesting part of Paris. It was, indeed, a perfect first-day activity, and a walk along Canal...
(Full post)One thing about an extended trip such as ours is that we have to do some normal, everyday things that generally get skipped on a vacation. Today, I got a haircut. I admit that I had been kind of dreading it, since I’ve been going to the same barber shop back home for twenty years and I just knew that...
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