Rainy days hold pleasant surprises when you travel, yet you probably won’t see them on the Travel Channel. Another of my travel maxims is, “Don’t let the weather decide how much fun you have.” Rainy days make a cup of tea taste the best. The Bath Bun tea shop in Bath, England is a wonderful…

  A 9″ x 16″ Ink and Watercolor. We met this fellow on a street in Avignon, he meows in French I think!

A few days ago, overwhelmed with the “serious” reading I have been doing I went on a search for diversionary escape. Books like “Possession” by AS Byatt,  a literary suspense sort of thing, came to mind. The result of the search pleasantly turned up “The Bookman’s Tale” by Charlie Lovett. So far it is just…