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Fri, 17 Jun 2016 | By billh | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 12 Jun 2016 | By billh | Views [364] | Comments [3]
Short story -- primarily to explain the photo. Today was my last Meet-Up event in Paris (third total) and was with a coffee group. Fourteen signed-up -- nine showed-up -- sound familiar? It was at the Umani Matcha Cafe near the Place ... Read more >
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 | By billh | Views [340]
Even though I thought I'd seen and done pretty much everything I wanted to here in Paris, things just seem to keep popping-up unexpectedly. Got up this morning and thought I'd just take it easy today -- headed-out to a nearby boulangerie for a ... Read more >
Wed, 8 Jun 2016 | By billh | Views [387] | Comments [1]
Up early this morning to meet Christine -- the plan was for her to take the airport bus to the Arc de Triomphe, I would meet her there around 9:00-9:30am, we'd drop her lugggage off at the apartment and go exploring. Worked farily well except the ... Read more >
Sun, 5 Jun 2016 | By billh | Views [331] | Comments [1]
The rain finally stopped here -- at least for today -- even though the skies are still gray.
One of the major stories on television is the flooding in north central France. The Seine is at it's highest point in years -- eighteen feet ... Read more >
Sun, 5 Jun 2016 | By marfee7 | Views [894] | Comments [6]
Monday May 30 2016
Nothing very exciting about preparations this year. Our mandatory renovate-a-room-just-before-we-leave was uncharacteristicly completed one week before our departure date. Still, we all make mistakes. So we awake at 6am ... Read more >
Sat, 4 Jun 2016 | By billh | Views [337] | Comments [1]
Today was to be my first solo foray outside of Paris -- the Palace of Versailles, about 35-40 minutes southwest of Paris. Woke at 6:30 to another grey, overcast day but the weather forcasts said no rain so off I went. The plan was to try ... Read more >
Thu, 2 Jun 2016 | By billh | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 1 Jun 2016 | By iain_and_tamara | Views [964] | Comments [1]
This is where it all started. Shortly after completing my school years I read Peter Mayall's famous book "A Year In Provence" and since that point have always wanted to spend a year in France, it would undoubtably be as full of crazy locals, obscure ... Read more >
Tags: brittany, byeaux, castles, chateaux, d-day, loire, normandy, versailles
Tue, 31 May 2016 | By billh | Views [375]
Woke up this morning to the rain coming down pretty good outside -- so decided to do what you do in Paris when it's raining -- go to a museum -- or in this case a Basilica and a museum. Located within a few blocks of each other and way off the ... Read more >
Mon, 30 May 2016 | By billh | Views [339]
Got up this morning determined to explore two Marches in the northern part of Paris. Started with the one nearest me (about a block from the park where lightning hit yesterday)-- there's actually a pretty decent farmers' market (about a block from ... Read more >
Sun, 29 May 2016 | By billh | Views [347] | Comments [1]
It's already Saturday afternoon -- the last few days have gone by quickly with nothing remarkable to mention -- kind of like Seinfeld's "a lot of nothing happened". A large part of the time has been spent catching-up on posting photos, writing ... Read more >
Fri, 27 May 2016 | By billh | Views [341] | Comments [1]
Slept in after a late night at the Moulin Rouge. Cindy had yet to see the Louvre so we decided to go there for the afternoon which may not have been the smartest choice but we had some time constraints (leaving on Tuesday morning). I say not the smartest ... Read more >
Thu, 26 May 2016 | By billh | Views [397]
Back from Brugge on Thursday, spent Friday sleeping in a bit and then Cindy and I rode the Metro across town to the Marche Daumesnil to do some grocery shopping -- of the Marches I've been to this one ranks in the top two or three for quality and variety.... Read more >
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