Today is our last full day in Nice. I know, you're feeling really sorry for us right now. Your heart will bleed when you realize we are toying with the idea of taking the train into Paris tomorrow once we land at De Gaulle. Our flight arrives at 11:15 a.m. and we don't fly out …
Author: Susan
Susan AKA Sue, AKA Aunt Susie: I am a former journalist and teacher at semi-loose ends who is still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I am restless and determined. I love a challenge.
Things I like: photography, yoga, mountains, a great book, exploring, music.
Things I am not so keen on: standing still, gray days, coconut
Wanderings and musings
Oh Covid. Aren't we all sick (no pun intended) of you!?!?!?! We have been traveling, so we're clearly not in the overly fearful category of Covid-living, but we're also vaccinated and respect the wishes of those around us. We wear masks on public transportation and in stores (and I don't mean chin straps), but we …
By the sea
What have we done so far this week? Do we have to do a lot here? Nice is compact, which means we can walk wherever we need to go. The Mediterranean is a few blocks away, as are beautiful hills. We have spent our mornings strolling along the Promenade des Anglais and marveling at how …
Retour à la maison
OK, not really home, but more familiar territory We returned to Nice Tuesday evening. Compared to Istanbul, the world seems familiar here. We can sort of understand things, systems make sense and there's a Monoprix! Before we left Istanbul, we had some last-minute eating to do. Turkish churros!(They were yummy!) Leaving Istanbul was an adventure …
Grand shopping adventure
Have we got some advice for you! If you like us and your curiosity outstrips your taste for shopping in massive crowds, try heading to the Grand Bazaar on a Monday morning. That's what we did and it worked out great (although we didn't buy anything). Well, we did buy one thing, but it was …
A “working vacation”
I realized this week that we are acting as if we are on vacation, but we're also working full time. Well, mostly full time. What does that mean? We're tired! But we're not going to stop. If you remember, we were going to spend six weeks in Nice, but ended up coming to Istanbul for …
We’re bullish on Istanbul
We've been in Istanbul about 29 hours now (but who's counting) and we already decided we love it! It's quite a change from quiet Clamecy. It's 22:30 here and the street is still hopping, on Sunday night. Not as much as Saturday night, but there are still people milling around and browsing in shops. We …
Dijon and Strasbourg and home (oh my)
Steven has taken the past couple of Fridays off for travel. This week, we weren't leaving town until Saturday so we decided to take a day trip to Dijon, about 2 hours away. We didn't know anything about Dijon except that we could probably get mustard. It turns out that Dijon is a fairly big …
Belgium, part 2
Steven graciously ceded part of the weekend travel to me (because he was too tired to write about the whole thing — yes, I was too tired to write the rest, but I will certainly take the compliment), so I finally get to tell you about something more interesting than a trip to the grocery …
Forgive the reflective digression
On this erev Yom Kippur (for those who do not know, it is the Jewish Day of Atonement), I want to take a moment out of reveling in our travels to remind myself how lucky I am. Has the road always been easy? Of course not. Am I all the things I imagined I’d become. …
Doing It On The Road 