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September 28 Palermo
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When I travel I love to go to markets and cook dinner at home. It’s a bit of creativity (what can we throw together using what is available?) and a bit of pretending that I live there. The others humored… Continue reading
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September 20/21 Aix-en-Provence
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We had two full days in Aix before leaving the home exchange house and heading our for the Rhône. Since we would be on the road eating out from then on, we decided to eat at “home” for the next… Continue reading
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September 19 St. Tropez and Brignoles
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We left Villefranche to return to Aix planning two stops along the way. St. Tropez and then Brignoles – where Bernadette currently works and lives. St. Tropez is a very small town with a lot of money. The harbor is… Continue reading
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September 18 Nice
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David and I took off early for a very full day in Nice. We started with The Promenade des Anglais (the English promenade). On one side is the beach and the other is the main road in front of hotels… 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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September 14 Aix-en-Provence
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Ian and David arrived yesterday. Ian about mid-day from the States and David in the evening from Switzerland. Valerie and I had stocked the house with good things to eat and we had a simple buffet of French hams, olives,… Continue reading
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Paris September 1
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After a late breakfast we set off for the Yves St Laurent museum. But on the way we did a little shopping. Enough that we had to return to the hotel with our purchases. But, so much fun. Traveling with… Continue reading
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Paris, August 31 2022
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In 2018 David, Byron and I ate at the Musee D’Orsay Restaurant. The waiter made quite an impression serving Byron’s asparagus soup. Today, Valerie and I went to the same restaurant on our first day in Paris. Our waiter was… Continue reading
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August 22 Seattle CHS
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Our last day together in Seattle. Planned lazy morning and packing for our early departures tomorrow. Carolyn wants us to read a New Yorker article on Alex Katz before our museum tour. It is fun to see her enthusiasm… Continue reading
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Apr 21 Melbourne
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After breakfast, Cynthia and I take the train into Melbourne to see Simon’s sculptures in 101 Collins Street. The office building is the “Fifth Avenue” of Melbourne, so the Bulgari jewelry store down the street has two guards dressed as… Continue reading
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Apr 11 Hall’s Gap to Bendigo
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Halls gap to Bendigo museums and parks. We say au revoir until Fiji to Wayne and Myra, load the car, clean the cabin and depart on almost totally empty roads for Bendigo, one of Victoria state’s major gold-mining towns of… Continue reading
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Mar 22 Melbourne
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Treasury and Parliament buildings and the Immigration Museum David runs down Bayview and turns left, toward the town beach where a dozen bathers of all ages, some in scuba gear, others in thongs, swim in the pre-dawn bay, and a… Continue reading
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Mar 21 Melbourne
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Federation Square tour, Ian Potter building of NGV, walk along the Yarra and see Rod Laver Arena, pub dinner. David runs as instructed down Bayview to the water where he turns right and jogs on a path along the shoreline,… Continue reading
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Mar 19 Christchurch
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Visit cardboard cathedral, earthquake memorials, Lyttelton, and the Tannery. Last day in New Zealand. In the light of a day born cold with a chill wind, downtown Christchurch seems like a desecrated graveyard, its stones defaced and toppled, its… Continue reading
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Mar 17 Christchurch
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Quake museum, art gallery, cathedral square, buy possum yarn. Stephen and Robyn have their personal trainer, Nathan, arrive at six a.m. for an hour of three “reps” of a dozen moves — squats, push-ups, standing jumps, stuff with 15-pound weights,… Continue reading
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Feb 25 Wellington
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David climbing, Cynthia shopping, both revisiting Te Papa Museum for the wonderful Gallipoli exhibit and many other displays. David climbs in Mt. Victoria Park to the place beneath the pines where the path splits, today going right to explore… Continue reading
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Feb 23 Wellington
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Te Papa Museum, sculpture walk, funicular to botanic garden, and the waka odyssey opening the New Zealand ceremony David wakes at 7 and climbs up, down and around the volcanic hill on the east side of Wellington’s harbor to… Continue reading
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Feb 14 Auckland to Waitomo
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Drive Auckland to Waitomo with a stop in Te Awamutu for Museum. Sadly, we leave Judy and the many up, down and around volcanic hills of Auckland behind us and make our way, mostly on the left side of the… Continue reading
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Feb 13 Auckland
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Tour wonderful art museum and Anglican Church More gray scudding clouds with intermittent rain so Judy drives us up, down and around Auckland’s many volcanic hills to the Art Gallery, an architectural marvel made to look like kauri trees… Continue reading
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Feb 11 Auckland
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Visit Auckland Museum: part war museum and part island culture. Drizzle with intermittent heavy rains. Judy drives us up, down and around Auckland’s many volcanic hills — do you sense a theme? — to the Auckland Museum. There is no… Continue reading
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