“Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.” – Janice Macleod Hard to believe that my next post will be from the USA, our two years and seven month time in France ends on Sunday. What a ride it has been. We decided to spend the last week in Paris, one of our…
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Active in Avignon and beyond
Next week I will be posting from Germany; on Tuesday our time in Avignon comes to an end all too soon. With that in mind we have been quite active – a bit of travel, art, and eating. Sunday we took the SNCF train from Avignon Central to L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue for their market day, it is…
A cooler week in Avignon
Not sure if temperatures below 92F qualify as cool, but compared with the 99-100F we have had it seemed better, or maybe we are just acclimating a bit. I got out on a few afternoons just for sketching, quite nice. Since I am contemplating switching to oils from acrylics I have been using Procreate to…
Settling in Avignon
We have been here a week now and are enjoying the south of France, we even think we are acclimating to the heat a bit; it has been hot – high 90sF. It is even possible the heat is easing some of Tricia’s knee pains, fingers crossed. Not owning a car is quite common in…
Paris to Annecy
A couple of paintings from our time in Giverny, before heading to Paris. In Paris, the traffic was bad thanks to the start of the Paris 2024 Olympics crowd, but we finally made it to Gare de Lyon. We had a nice afternoon break. The next day, Friday, we took the train to Annecy. One…
