June 21: Early in the morning, the trek back to the train station for another journey--this time into Italy, where our first stop was...

June 20: We'll pick up where I left off, as we left the casino and headed for the Oceanographic Museum and Prince's Palace. Fortunately,...

June 19: We left Arles on a beautiful morning, saying farewell to the Rhône River. Our first destination was Marseille, where we needed...

June 18: We landed safely in Arles! Bade a thankful goodbye to Yahya, our rescuer, and had a second and much better breakfast. Never did...

Cindy prepping for a big day of travel June 17: We left our apartment in Girona, where we'd had a chance to do laundry (yay!!), at a...

I've just been told that the fish I keep finding are all dolphins. I can't quite believe that they are all dolphins, but okay... This...

This was on the end of the building where we stayed. June 15: The trip to Girona, Spain, took most of the day. Our first train, out of...

June 14, and our last day in Sarlat. There were new guests at our bnb, a young couple who knew English well enough that they could help...

Time can pass slowly, especially when I'm writing about it much later... This, our second day in Sarlat stretches out to two chapters...

Sadly, as I was writing this particular chapter, the whole dammed thing disappeared at midnight. Apparently the witching hour got it. So...

June 12: Our train took off from Gare de Montparnasse at a very reasonable 10:08. We had a last breakfast at the cafe down the street,...

Finally! I'm at our final hours in Paris. We've done most of the things that first-time tourists in Paris are supposed to do (except the...

Yes, it is, and it's amazing to look back and see how much we managed to pack in even though Cindy was dealing with Covid. But here goes:...

It's way too late to embroil myself now in another day in Paris, but because I keep falling further behind, I don't want you to lose...

Actually, it felt as if we'd only just begun...time is passing so quickly... It was time to take off for our not-so-sunset cruise. It was...

Surprisingly, the Paxlovid seemed to have an immediate effect on Cindy. Her energy returned (of course, 12 hours of sleep helped that a...

Cindy took some pictures that more completely depicted our last evening at A'Dam, and I wanted to add them before we take you too far...

As we left the Cafe Scheltema, with both gustatory and ... ummm ... celebrity needs sated, Cindy and I wandered toward Begijnhof, a...

Regarding June 8, wherein we spend time in three very different high spaces and have some special encounters. At this point, we were on...

Regarding Sunday, June 4. I have so far left out one of our Bath days ( or the larger part of it). This was the day when we visited the...