North to Vermeer

From the time we left Santiago in mid-April, we really only had two hard dates that dictated our travels before catching the ferry to Ireland from Scotland in late June. First, we had reservations at a campground near Paris for …

Our European Thanksgiving

We interrupt our late summer travel posts to bring you one in real time – Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! This year we will be celebrating our fourth Thanksgiving holiday in Europe and I can hardly believe it! I love to look …

The Dordogne

As promised, in this post we return to our travels in the Dordogne. I can’t say I knew much about this area before coming here, but as our week in Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the foothills of the Pyrenees came to an …

First Vax Done!

I am once again jumping ahead of our travels to bring you the very latest update on our quest to be vaccinated. As I mentioned previously, we had set up appointments for doctor visits as well as to receive our …

Hello, France!

Crossing the border into France felt a little like coming home, everything just seems so familiar. If I’m honest, we were most excited to grocery shop and find all of our favorite goodies. One of these days I’ll do another …

2020 Travel Plans, v.2

I can’t believe it’s June! By the time we leave our lovely spot in a couple of weeks, give or take, we will have been here for three months. As we made a beeline out of Morocco, across Spain and …

Still in Lockdown

Hello, again! Sorry to be so long in posting, but honestly not a whole lot has changed in our daily lives. We are still enjoying our beautiful park, cooking good food, drinking good wine, reading, writing, doing chores and watching …