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April 22, 2025 Detroit
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We ablute, dress and amble down Woodward a ways, take a right and enter a small palace of pastries named Cannelle, which sells its namesake goodies — small columnar pastries of rum and vanilla with custard centers and carmelized crusts… Continue reading
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April 21, 2025 Detroit
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We leave Byron in complete charge of our home and drag our suitcases up the alley beside our house under a spitting gray sky. Metro to National Airport and wait a bit for our plane, which boards rather quickly. We… Continue reading
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April 24 Glasgow to Glencoe
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We leave our hotel in a flurry of German giants who say they are off booze for the next week because they have sampled all the scotch in Glasgow. A jovial fellow from Arnold Clark car rental picks us up… Continue reading
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April 22 Glasgow
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We board the tube for The Huntarian Museum and Mackintosh House on the grounds of Glasgow University, getting to them just before they open at 10 AM. The house is where he and his wife lived for about 10 years… Continue reading
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April 21 Glasgow
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Glasgow is not London but it’s like a smaller, earlier version of London. How do we think of it? Strangely: like John Knox’s passionate, puritanical spirit leavened London’s wilder culture … reformed it (all puns intended) … but gave it… Continue reading
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September 15 Arles & D’Arnajon
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Arles is full of Roman history so we planned a day trip to just see the one town. Marc and Franc invited us for dinner at their place after. Leaving the house a little later than planned we had an… Continue reading
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Mar 20 Christchurch to Melbourne
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Fly to Melbourne and see Jenny and Jim for the first time in about 40 years. We wake at 3:30 in the morning, hurriedly put on clothes and take our bags to the street where we are picked up by… Continue reading
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