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…
Eating in Paris and Peñiscola
We have been eating well these last couple of weeks. We started off in Paris, where we met up with some friends before heading off to Spain. A couple of the meals stand out. It doesn’t get much better than falling-off-the-bone braised lamb with sauerkraut. Then there was this amazing meal. Three kinds of grilled…
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…
My current travelsketching kit, January 2024
Since Tricia just had a birthday and it is so cold here in Normandie it seemed logical to head for a couple weeks in warmer Spain. Friday we are off to Paris for a few days, lunch with friends who live there, then on to Valencia and ending up in Peniscola. I am getting things…
Home – wood stove, missing Neville, and food
We got back home on 4 January after a month in the US, so what has it been like? First off it has been pretty cold most of the time, morning temperatures in the 20sF, we even had a dusting of snow. We try to use our wood stove as little as possible, it is…
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