Category France
Europe 2014 – Cognac, Need I Say More?
We bade farewell to Francois after one last filling breakfast and made our way to nearby Versailles in search of a bike shop to see if we could purchase more tubes and flat repair materials. Driving in the older cities of Europe, as said before, is always an interesting experience and even with the GPS […]
Europe 2014 – Montigny, Part Two (May 22-26)
Note to our followers: We recommend the use of Chrome as your browser for one important reason. It will automatically translate into English many of the web pages I’ve listed a link for. It is a very handy tool to have available. We had called ahead to let Francois know we would arrive around 7:00pm […]
Europe 2014 – Montigny, just outside the city of light
Google maps says it is about 225 miles from Bray-Dunes to Francois’ place in Montigny-Le-Brettoneux, not too long of a drive if you stay on the motorways and make good time. But we had a different agenda, one where we would attempt to locate the farm south of Calais where I spent the weekend in […]
Europe 2007 – The Start of a New Adventure, Part Four
We made the five-hour drive down to Francois’ place in Montigny without any further incident. It would be our first time to his new apartment, which he shared with his son Axel, after so many visits to the house that he and Heike had shared during our past journeys. With their divorce a few years […]
Europe 1998 – A Journey Rewarded, Part Four
The flight on Ryan Air, a pioneering company that changed how folks travel there, was uneventful. Our first on an airline within Europe; on prior trips you either drove or took the train, as intercity travel by air was very expensive. Ryan Air’s introduction of Southwest Airlines model pricing and penchant for flying in and […]
Europe 1992 – Jessica’s Hungarian Birthday, Part Four
We would spend five full days at Francois and Heike’s, marveling at how all of our lives had changed in the eight years since our last visit in 1984. In that time, we’d all had children, purchased homes, and pretty much settled into the careers that would sustain us through adulthood. This connection to Francois […]
Europe 1992 – Jessica’s Hungarian Birthday, Part Three
We left on October 18th heading to Prague, figuring it would take us a couple of days of driving as we were going to take smaller roads and make a stop at Aggtelek National Park, which is a couple of hours northeast of Eger. Aggtelek is the first Hungarian national park to be dedicated to […]
Europe 1984 – The Big Trip, Part Two
We set out from Paris on July 25th to spend about a week traveling and camping along the Normandy coast. Our first stop was Rouen, famous as the place where Joan of Arc was executed in 1431. After two nights we drove south paralleling the coast, with the top down, through Dieppe, Le Havre, Honfleur, […]
Europe 1984 – The Big Trip, Part One
By the end of 1983 we had started planning for a big trip, one that would take us on a grand adventure. This was primarily the result of a couple of unrelated factors, each equally important in pushing us to commit to a plan where we would leave our jobs and travel for multiple months. […]
Europe 1982 – Our Shared Adventure Begins
Upon my return to Los Angeles in early April, I set about looking for a new job. This search would lead me to UCLA, the place where I would end up spending the bulk of my career. The job itself was as a low-level supervisor, but it put me on campus and introduced me to […]
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