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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 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 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 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 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…
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Fascicle 10, Livre II – decembre 2024 La vie continue
Just to keep everything in perspective, the above is a montage of images that NASA posted on Instagram of the JWST’s pictures of the “Sombrero” Galaxy, ngc 5494, (It gets its name from its unusually large central bulge and its perimeter of dust that gives it a profile resembling a sombrero) 30 million light years…
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Fascicle 9, Livre II – novembre 2024 La vie continue
October – Anniversaries Here – and There Monday, October the 14th marked the first anniversary of our departure from the United States on a rainy Saturday from Dulles InternaƟonal on an Air France to Paris, Charles De Gaulle arriving the next morning and connecting to a flight here. What a year it has been for…
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Fascicle 7, Livre II – septembre 2024 La vie continue
1 Août – Adieu 55 bis Ave. Georges Clemenceau,Bonjour 123 Rue Alexandra David NeelEt la vie en N° 506 Higher Roch ! Even though moving is one of life’s vicissitudes that, along with root canals and major surgeries, one seldom looks forward to with much enthusiasm, for this one we got up before dawn, eager…
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Fascicle 5, Livre II – juli 2024 La vie continue
June “Busted” Out All Over (Apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein) June (on the 12th) marked the beginning of a new year for me, and all I will say about that is “keep ‘em coming!” There is nothing that we enjoy more than playing tour guides for those who come to visit us here, and this…
La Vie de Montpellier 