Hey friends, we’re back from the Swiss Alps and (among a whole host of other things) I want to talk to you about INSIDR, a company to which I am now affiliated. I can’t tell you how many proposals I turn down for guest posts or sponsorship because it’s not a good fit for my audience. A lot. Well, as… Read More
The medieval city of Provins is located in the Champagne region. The city seems to have existed since before the first century AD, but it was not until the 9th century that Charlemagne sent his missi dominici (his royal representatives: the Count of Paris and the Abbé of Saint-Denis) to strengthen it as a military stronghold. That’s when they built… Read More
When, at the tender age of 18, I sang along to Billy Joel’s Vienna Waits for You, identifying oh so well with those lyrics… Slow down, you crazy child You’re so ambitious for a juvenile But then if you’re so smart, tell me Why are you still so afraid? Where’s the fire, what’s the hurry about? You’d better cool it… Read More
Right after we got back from our week in the Loire Atlantique, my family came to visit. And then yesterday it was la rentrée (back to school) with tons of meetings planned for each class and extra-curricular activity. So this is a “lite” post containing mostly pictures of a couple of the towns we visited. A few summers ago we… Read More
Last week we visited the medieval city of Gurérande (gar-ahnd) and its nearby salt marshes, and there we learned how to harvest sea salt. Curious about that? When we started the tour, the guide showed us what salicorne (sah-lee-corn) looks like. In English, it’s called samphire, and it’s “a fleshy European seacoast plant (Crithmum maritimum) of the carrot family that is… Read More
This is our tenth anniversary of going to Brittany every summer. My husband has four brothers, who each have kids. And every July for two weeks, we all congregate with his parents in one large house, rented from the parents of friends of ours from church (and if that isn’t enough prepositions to keep your brain busy …) where we… Read More
