Our last full day in Paris, we left as a catch up day. So that ended up being the Musee de Cluny in the morning. I’d initially planned it in our Tuesday wander through the Latin Quarter, and we know how well the timing on that day ended up. Anyway, this museum is housed in […]
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Friday was Versailles day, and I got a real kick out of P’s reaction as we rounded the corner from the train station to the boulevard that approaches the Palace. It’s big. And you can know it’s big, and still be shocked by how big it is when you actually see it. We had lunch
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Thursday was an incredibly varied day. We started at the Catacombs – that was interesting. It’s very humbling to see all of the bones. I don’t think I’d ever need to go down again, but it was worth seeing once. Our next stop was the Place du Trocadero. You can get a really good view
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We did the Paris by Mouth North Marais tour on this day. It was a great intro to French food. We went to Tout Autour du Pain for baguettes and croissants – they’ve won awards for both. We then stopped at Jacques Genin to sample the chocolate and fruit candy (and our guide grabbed some
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Our first full day got a little off kilter because we slept a lot later than we should have. We’re not entirely sure we’d fly through Iceland again. The flights were great, and being able to go through immigration at Keflavik airport instead of Charles de Gaulle were definitely an advantage. The extra travel time
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It’s been almost a full week since we got back from Paris. I had just enough time on Monday to get all my pictures downloaded and organized so I could remember where everything was, and then had to get through a work week before I could start formatting. This was our first real vacation since
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We had a frost last week, after I stupidly planted out a few of the tender plants I bought last weekend. Lesson learned there. (I covered them – they did survive. Fortunately, it was only four plants.) So the rest of the plants I bought are jammed in with my seedlings under the grow lights,
This book occurs relatively late in the timeline of this series, and concerns Miles’ cousin Ivan. It’s more or less the story of how a notorious womanizer finally finds the right woman, and settles down. It helps that the right woman is one of the daughters of one of the baronial families of Jackson’s Whole.
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