We spent the week staying pretty close to home, cooking, planting some herbs and seeds that Lisa sent, Tricia sorted photos and wrote blogs, I sketched, wrote, and played a little music. It was a good week, today we plan to hit a couple of brocantes. Here are a few sketches from the week. I…
A Bistro, an Auberge, or Both – You Choose
Should you ever get near enough to meet-up with us in our rural part of Normandie for lunch we would recommend a choice between two places: Le Bistrot Saint Julien or Auberge de la Source. Both are about 15 minutes away. The first restaurant we went to after moving into La Thebauderie was Le Bistrot…
Death, Resurrection, and Cappuccino
My TWSBI died this week, after many years of companionship it is gone. In Faro I took the cap off to discover Platinum Carbon Ink all over, a serious leak – TWSBI’s don’t leak, ever. I chalked it up to a fluke, then a day or two later the same thing happened, only worse, this…
Manifesting Paris in Spite of Les Manifestations
After a week in the warmth of Faro we headed to Paris planning to spend a couple days there before catching our train to Flers on Monday. There were moments of trepidation as we anticipated being in Paris. The unrest in France over the legislation to change the retirement age from 62 to 64 is…
Sketching, Seeing and Connecting
While traveling the world, earning the title of theTravelsketcher, two things were special and added to the enjoyment of my travel. One is that I was doing urban sketching before I ever heard of the USK movement, I just sketched what was in front of me. The other was the interaction with people that sketching…
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