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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,…
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Fascicle 2, Livre III – fevrier 2025 La vie continue
Janus Named after the double-faced Roman god of beginnings and endings, January is a time for both reflection andanticipation after the bruhaha of December’s holidays. Unlike what the United States experienced, our January weather was surprisingly mild here near the Mediterranean coast. But January is not just the beginning of a new year; and, consequently…
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Fascicle 1, Livre III – janvier 2025 La vie continue
Célébration des Fêtes à Montpellier Décembre ! Suddenly Christmas trees (sapins des Noël) seem to be everywhere, including the foyer of Hotel Richer de Belleval, and then bands begin marching in the streets. While there are a few days when the sky is not clear, most of the time the sky is clear, sunrise can…
La Vie de Montpellier 