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…
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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….
This week in Peñiscola
It has been a good week here in the south of Spain. The old town of Penñiscola is quite a place. January is a month when a lot of the business owners take their vacations so many places were closed. We stayed in the old town and castle area for most of the time, except…
From Paris to Peñsicola
We left La Thebauderie last Friday, drove to Gare de Flers, hopped on the SNCF train headed to Gare Montparnasse in Paris. It was about 25F when we left and not much warmer in Paris. I did this sketch on the train of frozen fields flying past the window. Paris is always wonderful, the architecture…
Next stop Paris then on to Torchamp
I am writing this on the Eurostar on the way to Paris, then on to home in Normandie. Last Friday we rented a car for the drive from Portland to Seattle. We visited some family along the way then met up with friends at the rental return in downtown Seattle. After the best Mexican food…
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