France Tales

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Hopefully this won’t be another trite post to be added to the lengthly list of posts about how people get back in touch with people from their past. Maybe instead I’ll list a few of the people who in the last week I have made contact with and simply say something funny about something I [...]

On Thursday Jean-Jacques and I went to Perigeux, France with Gail and Hayes. Before we moved here I kept getting the region Perigord and the city Perigeux mixed up. To the untrained ear they sound similar. Even when you hear the difference, try saying it. Mary might was well be selling her shiny seashells by [...]

I’m trying out tagging posts. I wonder if this will help with SEO. I don’t know. I imagine if you do a Google search and if the search terms match some of the words used as tags that it might return my blog in the results. I’m trying to drive more traffic here. Any other [...]

Aggravation number 1When we were in Montpelier we got a late start. We didn’t leave the city until 1:35PM to come back to Bergerac where we rented the car. It basically takes 5 hours to get back, the rental place closes at 6:30PM. We would either not make it and pay an extra day or [...]

Jean-Jacques and I went to Montpelier to visit our friend Laetitia, who lives in Philadelphia but was visiting her family in Montpelier. We also had been searching for cars and there was a car we were interested in that was located in Montpelier. It was far enough that we wouldn’t go just for that day [...]

That is an all time record for us. Maybe the slightly guilt inducing post about answering the survey worked. Check out the new survey. When Al Gore won the Nobel Prize we were without the internet so we could not follow the stories and see what was happening. Then we had a horrible week, which [...]