Since spending our last 10 summers in southern France, Les & I have been immersed in the Roman world. It's all around us, especially here in Villevieille. We can walk to an archeologically reconstructed Roman house ruin in 7 minutes. Our house, & the houses around us, are built in a basic Roman style, but without the atrium. Within 25 miles, in Roman Nîmes, the City of Emperor Augustus (27 BC-14 AD), we can enter the arena (c 100 AD), or go to a mus...

Overcoming Obstacles…A wonderful week in Paros, Greece 6-29-22, Les & I flew from Montpellier to Paris, & just as we were waiting to board our flight to Athens, we noticed that our third flight, to Paros Island, was due to leave before we would arrive. Without notifying us, Air France had delayed the boarding time just enough to make it impossible for us to make that flight! We crossed our fingers, & boarded the 3 hour flight to Athens. Arriv...

Friday, July 15, Les & I arrived in London for a 3 day adventure that was planned, then of course canceled, in 2020. We couldn't wait to get started. We were shocked when we realized that the last time we were there was in 2000. We've always loved London, & this time we came prepared with a plan to focus on looking at London through the lens of the Thames River. This river-focus idea came to me while I was reading a detective series about a police detect...

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...