travel
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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 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 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…
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Fasc. IV, Lvr. II – juin 2024 La vie continue
May Was a Marvellous Month And a merry one too! With warmer (but not too warm) days, longer hours of daylight, and more sun webegan to really enjoy spring. Clear blue skies over Place de la Comedié (below) made it delightful, while the Ligne 5 tram’s rails are starting to go in place (above) and…
La Vie de Montpellier 