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Category: France

Featured Posts, France, Galleries, Letters From Provence, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / April 24, 2020

Remembering Aix: City of Light, Laughter and Joie de Vivre

Featured Posts, France, Off the Beaten Path, Slow Lane, Uncategorized, With Kids / August 27, 2019

Shifting to the Slow Lane Along the Brittany Coast

In a way, we didn’t find the town of Dinard. It found us. I’d spent hours in November looking through HomeAway apartments in Brittany, a […] Read More

driving, France, Tips & Trivia / August 14, 2019

Driving Tips for that French Road Trip

Kathy drove.  I rode shotgun, tracking maps and GPS. Given that I’ve fondly called Kathy my ‘map nut’ these many years, let’s just say this […] Read More

Featured Posts, France, Slow Lane, Uncategorized, United States, With Kids / August 8, 2019

Traveling With A Kid? Rent Apartments, Not Hotel Rooms

DINARD, France — It took me four tries and 15 minutes to log onto the Wifi in our stately, spacious apartment in this Brittany beach […] Read More

Featured Posts, France, Uncategorized, With Kids / July 31, 2019

On the Road, Be Open to Surprises. And Make Your Own.

CHAMONIX, France — Let’s be honest: Most trips come with some bumps. This one started inauspiciously on July 21 when a broken luggage-loading conveyor belt […] Read More

Featured Posts, France, Galleries, Slow Lane, Uncategorized / January 11, 2019

Memories of France

France, Galleries / June 9, 2018

Cassis: A Magical Village on the Mediterranean

Featured Posts, France / May 19, 2018

It’s the Little Unplanned Moments that Make Travel Divine

The best travel days are built on serendipity. They turn on small surprises that nonetheless pay big dividends. But always, I find, they require a […] Read More

France / May 19, 2018

Sights and sounds of history: Avignon’s Palace of the Popes

Featured Posts, France / May 16, 2018

Learning to Travel On My Own

I’ve never been a particularly good solo traveler. But over these last few weeks, after 46 years of marriage,  I’m getting better at it. I’m […] Read More

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I’ve never measured a successful trip by how many destinations I can circle on a map or check off a Bucket List.  To me the best journey, and the best ravel, moves more like a good conversation. It ebbs and flows. It rarely rushes, but it’s also animated and unpredictable. It is filled with banter and laughter, and invites participants to linger rather than march forward inexorably like a tightly wound clock. Want to have dessert?  A second glass of wine? A detour in a back-alley artisan’s shop? A pause at an overview by the side of the trail? Why not. Read more. 

 

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