Four hours on a high speed train and, viola, we are in the south of France. Provence is beautiful in April. The weather continues to be...

The rest of the week playing tourist has flown by. We visited our favorite places, Notre Dame Cathedral, Ile St. Louis, Avenue des...

A long-abandoned mid-19th century viaduct was converted into the world’s first elevated park walkway in 1993. Winding through our...

Our dear friends Dave & Beverly came to Paris for a week. Great visit! It has been a perfect blend of tour guide, Paris host, and...

Ron and I started taking yoga classes at the YWCA on New Years Day. The original plan was to swim, but the pool was closed for repairs,...

We have been in France now for one month. The following is Ron's list of signs that we actually live here and are not visitors, tourists,...

Who would spend 5 hours riding on a train at 180 mph to get to a place named Carcassonne? It sounds French for "a dead body". It all...

The subway, Le Metro, is a masterpiece of engineering. It is a stark and wonderful contrast to much of french life which lacks any sense...

One of the features that really sold us on our apartment was the balcony. Tiny, even by Paris standards, but an actual balcony, not just...

Spring is arriving in Paris. It is the first change of season I have witnessed since 1984. Thirty-five years is a long winter. For...

We spent the weekend in Bayeux. Why? On Friday afternoon walking from French Class to the train station, I asked Ron the same question:...

Rebecca's Christmas gift this year was a fun little book about French nuances. One of the chapters chronicles how French women seem to...

We spent the weekend criss-crossing Paris engaged in our new favorite past-time: market hopping. Yes, I know, we were supposed to rest...

Ice skating! That was the draw. Madame shared with us earlier in the week that there is a skating rink on the top of Paris's tallest...

They are beautiful, with little make-up. Lipstick or eyes done, but rarely both. They are beautiful, and they do not blow dry and style...

Markets have been a staple of Paris life and culture for hundreds of years, and are the perfect test tube for our experiment of living...

Fun fact - jet lag hits harder and lasts longer as we age. What a journey to get here. But get here we did. We arrived yesterday,...

We are leaving America on my birthday. The lyrics to an old John Denver song have been playing in my head all morning: "He was born in...

I do not remember the characters or even the story told by Tennessee Williams in his famous novel The Glass Menagerie, which was required...