We are working hard to make lemonade from the lemons we have been given. Last week, we had the next six months all planned. One week in Barcelona, three months in Fez, a month and a half in Rome and then a couple of weeks in Amsterdam. Then COVID reared its ugly head again and …
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Our last weekend in Nice
Friday was yet another beautiful day on the French Riviera. We took an excursion to another island just off of Cannes. This one is called St.-Honorat and is the home to a monastery and Cistercian monks. They make (and sell) wine and one a month they offer a tour and wine tasting. To get there, …
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 …
A lazy weekend
We settled into the slower and all together more comfortable pace of Nice. The fruit and vegetable market is open almost every day and the Monoprix has wider selection of foods that we recognize. On Friday, we worked in the morning and then decided to go to the Marc Chagall Museum. It was a 20-minute …
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 …
Settling into Istanbul
The days here are long as we tend to get up by 9, head out for some sightseeing until 1 or 2 p.m., then home to work until 8 p.m. and then have dinner. We are generally getting to sleep between 1 and 2 a.m. Long, but really fun days. One thing to note is …
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 …
This is Saturday — it must be Belgium(*)
This weekend we went to Belgium. We left “early” Friday morning – about 9:30 – and headed to Brugge. It was about a five-and-a-half-hour drive. For those who do not know, Belgium has two parts (here is brief primer on the divide). The southern part of the country is occupied by the Walloons. They call …
Into the Alps
We headed out Friday morning for a town called Chambéry. It is about 4 hours southeast of us and in the heart of the French Alps. For those of you who are fans of the Olympics, it is an hour north of Grenoble (1968) and an hour and a half west of Albertville (1992). Once …
Doing It On The Road 