After living in a foreign country for 10 days it feels good to be home on one level and a shame for vacation to end on another. Having clean clothes, cooking food in my own kitchen, and getting back in my yoga body has been nice. All those cares and schedule demands that seemed so pressing before I left are
We headed out of Ales on 9 September to visit two places: Le Pont du Gard and Nimes. Le Pont (bridge) du Gard (over the Gardon River) is a Roman aqueduct built in about 50 AD. It took an estimated five years to build and it is a huge thing. Whenever I see these sorts of Roman structures it makes
We said goodbye to our hostess, Jane, and traveled to Ales in Provence. We are staying in an Ibis, a sort of chain hotel. It is comfortable and has a bathtub (not just a shower) and is smack dab in the middle of town. There is a cyber cafe here where I am caught up on my emails. It is
In Camurac we stayed in a Gite (an apartment for rent). The couple who owns the Gite are English; Jane and Graham. Camurac is a very small village. Jane told us she thinks there are just 40 families living there. One of the things that happens in the small mountain towns like Camurac. On certain days a mobile market rolls
We headed towards Foix for the Rivière Subterraine de Labouiche, an underground river. The 75 minute boat trip covers a mile going past weirdly shaped stalaclites and stalagmites. We changed boats twice; going further and further underground each time. The deepest cave was about 60 meters. The water, not very deep, is at 11 degrees c and the air temp
Andorra is a small (really small) principality between France and Spain. They bill Andorra as a shopping mecca. It´s duty free and, by a cursory look, about half the stores are perfume shops and the other half are electronic shops. Barb´s looking for perfume and Dad´s looking for a convertor (we blew through two yesterday charging the computer) so I
The Triennial National Iyengar Yoga Convention was held in one of the most non-yogaesque places in the country, Las Vegas, the first weekend of May. Almost 900 yogis and yoginis attended the general convention at Alexis Park Resort and Villas, a mile east of the Vegas strip. The theme of the convention was The Journey: From Body to Bliss. The