A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
If you’d like to see some of the pictures I took on the trip to France, go here: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8BcMWbNu2ZKRuI
2109, 2007
1609, 2007
Home Again, Home Again
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
1209, 2007
Pont du Gard/Nimes 9 Sept
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
1209, 2007
Ales
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
1209, 2007
Camurac, The French Countryside
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
0709, 2007
Rivière Subterraine de Labouiche, 7 Sept
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
0709, 2007
Bonjour-Hola
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