Our family in Paris

Christian, our guide from  Canoë Safaraid w as quite cheerful and reminds me of yet another reason I love France- the French people.  Yes, I...

Have you noticed it too?  Marshmallows have been appearing more frequently in or on traditional French desserts.  Maybe for the European ...

Beginning with a warm greeting from the responsable, our trip at the Indigo Camping in Sarlat was great.  The tents were well equipped wi...

I love France for the simple everyday things, breakfast for example.  There is nothing better than a toasted tranche of Poilane bread ...

Q and M were definitely excited about returning to Paris.  What didn't thrill them was the idea of going to school the Monday after thei...

What could be better than driving down the pastoral counryside of the Dordogne?  If the whole scene could be slowed down and savored...

We arrived to find a crisp, clean outdoor pool, a heated indoor pool with a sauna and a pair of tennis courts.  We must be staying in a ...

A cobalt blue background with a bride and groom hovering near the Eiffel Tower is my immediate image of a Chagall painting. But catch t...

What a girl wants! No trip to Paris is complete for my girl without a trip to Angelina's. Indeed, it was a marvelous sensory experien...

This young man in the photo, Clément Méric was killed last night from individuals that were part of a far-right leaning group. There w...

All right, we're back in Paris after being gone nearly a year, and the one thing that has really pushed me to write on the blog is the d...

The kids and I headed out in this heat to where else? The beach, of course. Paris turns into a tropical sandy destination for four weeks t...

"All good things come to an end." Well, I don't know who said or wrote that or if it is necessarily true, but that expressions...

The final leg of the Tour de France finished today on the Champs-Elysees. After we spent a couple hours watching the pack approach Paris, w...

We popped over to Ireland for five days while we are still in the region. I went to visit my friend Denise, a friend I had met over twenty y...