On our last day in La Thebauderie even the tiny, 3cm, snail on the window was frowning, sad I am sure to see us go. Just a few days before, after a lot of sorting and packing, we put everything we wanted to keep on a pallet-container to be shipped to Oregon. I sketched flowers…
Tag: sketching
Wales to Penzance to Paris
If you have followed my travel blogs for even a short time you know that I have an obsession about packing light, which includes my sketching kit. This Daily Humor from the New Yorker made me smile. We took a small-group day-tour to get out and see some of the countryside of Wales. The first…
Dublin town
We are in Dublin, the first time for either of us in Ireland, I was in Northern Ireland, a different country, many years ago. We have looked forward to this trip for some time, and it has been good. We started off with a visit to the Guinness Storehouse, a multimedia experience that tells the…
Sidelined by a microbe in Nanterre
Last Wednesday the homeless viruses of the area decided they needed a place to hang out, and I was chosen to be their AirBnb. In spite of the efforts of the Airborne that we took I succumbed to their invasion for a few days of coughing and sniffing. Thankfully for me, they checked out yesterday,…
Nanterre, with a day trip to Paris
We are in Nanterre until 3 June when we fly to Dublin. Here is our world until early July when we go back to La Thebauderie, for another chapter change in our life. We took a day trip into Paris, pretty easy: The 258 bus stops just a few feet from our apartment, we take…
