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April 23, 2025 Detroit
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The Hudson Cafe on Woodward Avenue, just three blocks from our hotel, is a Detroit landmark, like Scholls Cafeteria was in Washington, DC. Its menu is the size of a small movie poster and covers bagels to benedicts. Cynthia orders… Continue reading
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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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May 2-3, Porto and Regua
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It’s cold and rainy in Porto, but we get up early and walk down steep, rain-slick streets to board our boat to Regua. We are assigned to table 14 — all tables are below deck in a surprisingly large room… Continue reading
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April 14, Rabat
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This day will prove to be “one of those days” that experienced travelers too old to be completely on their toes remember as … ahhh… “interesting” or “memorable.” We climb to the Doge’s rooftop and are told there are only… Continue reading
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February 24 SMA
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This was Saturday market day. Not David’s cup of tea so he had a day to himself while Debra and Cynthia visited the organic market and an art market. As with other days, Debra had her favorites to visit. First… Continue reading
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February 23, San Miguel de Allende
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Up, eat and grab a cab to centro SMA for a guided tour that gathers under the beautifully trimmed trees in the square in front of the Parroquia. Our guide, Dali (no relation), who graduated from the university in Guanajuato,… Continue reading
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February 18, San Miguel de Allende
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Our ride four hours northwest to San Miguel de Allende — SMA, wink, wink — will gather us at 1:00 so we wake late, pack, leave our bags at the front desk, and stroll the colonia (neighborhood). We brunch outside,… Continue reading
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February 17 Mexico City
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Despite Quetzalcoatl’s ingenious campaign to prevent us from seeing the Rivera murals in the Palacio Nacional — he leagues with Tlaloc, the god of water, to bring a chill wind and heavy rains upon his flock this morning — we… Continue reading
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February 16 Mexico City
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David dresses in the chilly early morning, gulps cafe and vitamins in the sweet dining room with a French couple who pretend to understand what he says, and a tasty crumpet from London who’s here for two months and DOES… Continue reading
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February 15 Mexico City
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The three of us woke early and skipped breakfast so we could ride our pre-arranged cab to the Anthropology Museum where, 45 minutes before it was to open, we waited in a long line on a large entrance plaza. On… Continue reading
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October 11 Brussels
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Top of my list for our last day in Brussels was a tour of the Magritte Museum. It had been closed and reopened just a few days ago. I expected to see a lot of Magritte paintings and was surprised… Continue reading
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October 10 Antwerp
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We were ambivalent about going to Antwerp but I am so glad we decided to go. The city has the same lovely central square as other Belgian cities with magnificent town halls and guild buildings. But the layout is more… Continue reading
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October 8 Ghent
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Alternating days in town (Brussels) with days out of town, a day trip to Ghent was perfect. As seniors only $8 round trip on the regional train, Very easy since it was the same direction as the train to Bruges.… Continue reading
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October 7 Brussels
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Belgium is known for Art Nouveau and this year there is a festival with openings of otherwise private places. Today we visited two Victor Horta sights. A house he built for someone else – Hotel van Eetvelde – and his… Continue reading
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October 5-6 Bruges
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Bernadette had told me that she would like to visit Bruges and Carolyn thought that it warranted an overnight. Bernadette only had 3 nights with us (Oct 4-7) so we planned to go on the 5th. However, after dinner her… Continue reading
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October 3-4 Brussels
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Carolyn and I came to Brussels from Paris on the 3rd. Navigated Gare du Nord in Paris, Brussels-Midi, and the Brussels metro to arrive about 3 at Stephanie Hardy’s house. Stephanie is sister to Daniel who is married to Monika… Continue reading
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September 30 Paris
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The itinerary for this day began with the Rick Steves tour of Historic Paris. Heading for Notre Dame we came across a small flower and plant market. We wandered through it enjoying the beauty and peace of plants. There were… Continue reading
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September 29 Paris
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Although some had been to the Louvre before and were not as enthused, the desire to stick together got us all off to see the famous works of art. Winged Victory, Mona Lisa A bonus was that a branch of… 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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