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September 8, 2020

Goodbye Old Friend: May You Yet Dig Your Way to China

April 24, 2020

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

December 19, 2019

The Enduring Gift of Christmas

June 9, 2018 / France, Galleries

Cassis: A Magical Village on the Mediterranean

June 3, 2018 / Featured Posts, New England, United States

Beginning the Journey Anew

After 19 years in Lexington, we will be moving to Cape Cod three weeks from tomorrow.  I’ll officially be retired from Emerson College the week […] Read More

May 19, 2018 / Featured Posts, France

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

May 19, 2018 / France

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

May 16, 2018 / Featured Posts, France

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

May 13, 2018 / Featured Posts, France, Uncategorized

Aix-en-Provence: A Place to Be, Not Merely See

I could live here. It’s the first thing that comes to mind as I again walk the narrow streets of Aix, listening to laughter carried […] Read More

May 13, 2018 / Featured Posts, France

In Aix-en-Provence, Nothing Matters More Than Market Day

June 6, 2017 / Adventurer's Index, Featured Posts, France

An Afternoon in Lourmarin

May 31, 2017 / Adventurer's Index, Featured Posts, France, Galleries

An evening stroll in Aix-en-Provence

The light dances, changing hues, shaping brilliance and shadow. It warms the evening and the soul. Take a stroll. It’s a chance to reflect and to lavish in the sunlight’s last hours.

May 9, 2017 / Adventurer's Index, Featured Posts, France, Letters From Provence

Back in Aix-en-Provence again, our home away from home

By now, our third stay in the second-floor apartment of the solid house our landlady’s grandfather built early in the last century, Kathy and I […] 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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