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Fascicule 1, Livre IV – 2026 La vie continue
January — A New Year & a New Look Well, only a slightly new look … since I’m now an « apple-holic français » I’ve switched from Window’s Calibri font to Apple’s Aptos ; and will be using guillemets — these « birds » (guillemots are auk-like shorebirds) instead of inverted commas — « why…
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Fascicle 12, Livre III – 2025 La vie continue
2025 Decembre – Nous vous souhaitons un joyeux Noël,des joyeuses fêtes, et nos meilleurs vœux pour 2026 ! The holidays are a magic @me in Montpellier. Above : Place de la Comédie, below : Le Marché de Noël in Peyrou. 2025 has been quite a journey Top Image: (clockwise from upper left) Marseille, Paris, Arles,…
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Fascicle 11, Livre III – 2025 La vie continue
7-11 Novembre – Reims Revisité We stayed just two nights in Reims on our 2021 “Tour de France” (just before a week in Paris) but they producedmany fine memories. So when our friends, Monica and Sean, invited us to join them along with others for a weekend in Reims attending the Salon des Vins des…
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Fascicle 10, Livre III – octobre 2025 La Vie continue
Barcelona – 17-20 October Barcelona from Park Guell (01) or from the terrace at the top of the Occidental Diagonal 414 hotel (02-05) takes your breath away. Its beginnings go back over 5,000 years before the Roman colony, Barcino, was established around 218 BCE, but legend has it that it was founded when Hercules and…
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Fascicle 9, Livre III – septembre 2025 La Vie continue
3 September – Domaine L’Oulivie Revisited Maybe you remember that this means a bus to the end of the line, a stroll toward Pic Saint-Loup, and into vineyards, but it was all worth the effort to have a new supply of Picholine and Lucques olive oils. (We took an Uber home.) 5-7 September – La…
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Fascicle 8, Livre III – 2025 La vie continue August 2025
31 July-4 August – Annecy Redux Some of you may recall that on Bonny’s and my «Tour de France» in September 2021 we paid a brief visit to this city in the Alpes just a few miles from the Swiss border and close to Mont Blanc – and one of Bonny’s favorite places in France.…
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Fascicle 6, Livre III – juin 2025 La vie conƟnue
1 May – 30 June On the first of May, a perfect spring day here, after a leisurely stroll to the Lez (where along the way I made this picture of one of the fountains around Montpellier) we shared a glass (bottom right) of Château d ’Yquem of the 1997 vintage at our favorite boîte,…
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Fascicle 4, Livre III – avril 2025 La vie continue
12-14 March – All About Arles(Tout savoir sur Arles) Six centuries before the Common Era Greek merchants from Marseille came up the Rhone to trade with the Gauls and established a merchant town they called Theline on a promontory on the eastern branch of the Rhone where it divides into two mouths (bouches) the eastern…
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Fascicle 5, Livre III – mai 2025 La vie continue
9 -11 April – Marseille Revisité (This picture was taken 16 December 2023 on our first visit to Marseille; the sky was as blue then as it was this time.) At over 500 feet above the Mediterranean and the highest point in Marseille, la Bonne Mère, the Basilica Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde, is Marseille’s best known and most…
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Fascicle 3, Livre III – mars 2025 La vie continue
5 Fevrier – Pavillon Populaire – Gisèle Freund Expo “The image is easy to understand and accessible to everyone. Its particularity consists of addressing emotionality. It leaves no time for reflection andreasoning like a conversation or reading a book. It is in its immediacy that its strength and also its danger reside.”– Photography and Society,…
La Vie de Montpellier 