I know, I know, for a series of posts titled “Orient Express” there’s a surprising lack of talk concerning trains. Is it at all surprising, from what you’ve read so…
Our second day of this preamble had a very simple agenda. Our only previous visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum was in 2007 (predating this sort of blogging so…
Believe it or not (and honestly we can barely believe it ourselves at this point) we were back on the road again after a very brief intermission back in Braga….
While our Southern France posts were going live, someone asked me how we managed to go for such a long trip with only a suitcase and backpack. With the caveat…
And so it all comes down to this. More than two weeks of beaches and sun, of castles and gardens and even a splash of Leonardo da Vinci, and now…
To paraphrase Vesper Lynd, “there are Gardens and there are Gardens; this is the latter.” We packed up from Les Sources and made our way west, bound for Nantes which…
Let’s just get one thing out of the way right now: nobody’s payin’ us nothin’ for nothin’. (Ok, that should have scared off the English majors, let’s the rest of…
This trip to France has been the opposite of our most recent jaunt to Ireland. The pace has been what may best be described as “elegiac”. Breakfast whenever we’re ready…
We begin our day at our new hotel with breakfast. No crap, really? But this is actually reporting because the breakfast was pretty good. Yes, that’s a low bar, but…
Trivia time! Where did Leonardo da Vinci die? Was it a) a midair helicopter collision, b) in a hayfield, sliced in half by his own invention the horse-propelled scythe scissors,…
