Wednesday Illustrations, Autumn in Bordeaux

I want to offer you something today, but franchement, after this morning’s yoga class — oof! what a workout! — and given that we’re due to meet our French tutor in an hour, I can’t…

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Desire for a New Bag, Prune-Coloured.. . . Or?

We’re back in our Bordeaux rental now, where it will be good to sleep more than four nights in a row in the same bed, to have easy access to laundry facilities (we have a…

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Did You Guess — Rome?

Just bursting with adventures to share. Mini-adventures, to be sure, but delicious enough to this temporarily solo-travelling woman-of-a-certain-age. But I’ve been out wandering all morning, managed to order my lunch from the table despite the…

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What I Wore: Summer Whites as Fall Knocks on the Door

Super busy with a variety of delightful activities ’round here: grandkids; friends visiting from out of town; long bike rides; unpacking boxes and trying to figure out where to put things; trying to find things…

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Settling In: A WIW photo and a peek at the new Garden

Bit of a whirlwind ’round here, as you might imagine, what with all the moving boxes and the trying to understand this new space, the new lifestyle we’ve embarked on, how we will want and…

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