Goodness, that was a long stretch without posting, wasn’t it? Hope you are all checking back in! We have just arrived in Paris from a week cruising on the river Rhone and Soane. This is the boat when we arrived in Arles. It was a small boat holding only about 125 people with, best we […]
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River Rhone and Saone
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: eating · Itinerary · Sabbatical trip · Site Seeing · travel · Uncategorized
Nice is nice (sorry, couldn’t resist)
May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Our next to last day in Nice. Tomorrow we transfer from the current hotel we’re in a block or two away to the hotel that is the official start of our “Flavors of Burgendy & Provence†River cruise. We’re having second thoughts (and that’s all they can be!) and hoping we enjoy being with a […]
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Salamanca Part 2
April 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Goodness, tomorrow is our last day of classes here and I’ve hardly posted anything about Salamanca. I can only blame being ill. We’ve gone to classes, eaten lunch and had long afternoon naps trying to get better. You also have to plan things around siesta time. Almost everything but a few small shops for newspapers […]
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Travel Central
February 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments
It’s February 1st!  The trip that has been over a year in our brains, over 6 months in the planning, and starts in just 14 days!  Today’s snow and ice storm is one of the unpredictables in the list of what can’t be planned ahead; we sure hope we don’t have to battle the weather […]
Tags: Itinerary
January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
It’s now about 6 pm.  I started this morning at about 10, took about 20 minutes for lunch and about 45 minutes to do some shoveling snow, but otherwise I have been tied to this computer for the whole day preparing for the trip. I’m amazed! I ordered some pants and other handy things that […]
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