Guédelon: A Back in Time Adventure to the muddy 13th century I've always been fascinated by time travel. I've always loved books that take you back in time, where there are 2 stories running simultaneously at different time periods. And I'm a total medieval freak, where the whole manor/castle social system intrigues me. I've managed to "go back in time" twice, each time via the internet, with a grandson. And each of these "adventures"...

One of our favorite French cities is Marseille, France's second largest city, with about 1,000,000 people. Founded by the Greeks as Massalia in 600 BC as a prosperous trading city on the Mediterranean Sea, then later developed by the Romans, it is to this day the most important PORT of France. But instead of feeling like a huge city, it feels like a small, friendly, easy to love, fun-to-walk-around-city. Most summers, we go there at least twice. It has everythi...

We are delighted to be back again in southern France, after only a 9 month absence this year. We arrived the last day of May, & have been enjoying the sunshine & clean air in our lovely little village, overlooking vineyards, olive trees, & mountains. Once we get through the internet & phone issues, all will be almost perfect. We have 3 nice trips planned, spaced evenly through our 3 months here, & have already enjoyed 2 full weekends, visit...

Here we are at the end of the summer, already! Our stay here in Villevieile was shorter this year than usual --7 weeks instead of 12 (due to Covid of course!), but it was still a continual spark of joy to be here. Once we arrived, our travel was of course restricted. There was no way we wanted to even try to visit another country. Getting here was enough of a hassle, but worth it. We easily adapted to France's new Anti-Covid system called "le passe sanitaire", ...

Bienvenue! We are delighted to welcome you (or welcome you back!) to our blog about summers in the south in France! However, we have included blogs & picture albums from "the Covid Summer", 2020, when, like everybody else, we were a bit restricted. But we did manage a wonderful Summer Odyssey, in spite of Covid, & we wanted to include it on our blog. We use this blog as part diary, part travelogue, part musings about all kinds of silly things, & lots...