This is the 161st time I’ve posted on this blog since we landed in France Jan. 5. It’ll be my last — for awhile. I […] Read More
Category: Slow Lane
It’s hard — perhaps impossible — to wrap six months overseas in a neat bow. I can’t provide you with “Five Ways to Find Friends […] Read More
Think it’s OK to bury those orange peels on the trail? Or toss out a piece of chewing gum? Chamonix mag’ has this to say […] Read More
The next time we hike the Grand North Balcony trail above Chamonix, it won’t be by accident. We’ve learned by luck and happenstance that the […] Read More
Kathy intercepted me as I walked out the bathroom door. “You have to come see Mont Blanc,” she said. It was barely light out. “I […] Read More
The president of the community of villages in the Chamonix valley offers greetings to visitors using public transportation. It’s a great system: free bus and […] Read More
“The mountains are so silent,” Kathy said as we finished the fourth course — the cheese — of a quite exceptional five-course meal at Hotel […] Read More
If I stay in France much longer, I may have to convert to Catholicism. And that’s from a secular humanist who in a good year […] Read More
By the time we tasted our 15th and last wine, Pierre Jaboulet-Vercherre had reached full crescendo in his presentation. The ruby-rich cassis, he said, was […] Read More