Paris, Lyon, Geneve – now on to Milan


Our EC39 TGV just left the Genève station on its way to Milan. Since leaving La Thebauderie just over a week ago we have taken trains from Flers to Paris, Paris to Lyon, and Lyon to Genéve, today is the last train ride of this trip. In Paris we stayed near the Bastille, the same…

We are off tomorrow


We have been home for just a month, tomorrow we head out for a seven week excursion. My art-toolkit.com pallets are freshly topped off – the standard size one with watercolor, the mini with gouache. Just three months ago we were in the PNW, now we are Italy and Croatia with stops along the way….

La cuisine chez nous, II


Started my day a bit off, but then, on the way to the Intermarché, Tricia reminded me that she was making pasta for lunch, it completely brightened my day; food is so important to us and our frame of mind. So now, thoroughly rejuvenated, I am writing while she is creating one of the best…

Lessons from Van Gogh and Instagram


“The duty of the painter is to study nature in depth and to use all his intelligence to put his feelings into his work so that it becomes comprehensible to others.” Van Gogh’s letter to Theo, 31 July 1882 This has been a light week as far as sketching and painting goes, but it has…

La cuisine chez nous


We got back home on Tuesday, 6 February, which means for us it is time for cuisiner chez nous, cooking at our place. We love restaurants yet we miss cooking ourselves so we don’t eat out a lot between voyages. Here are a few of the highlights from the last two weeks. Tricia started notre…