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A helpful guidebook for groups and individuals By Gareth Hughes I have read many books on the operations in Normandy, and many guides for visitors
Independence Pass, CO, 2016 September 1, 2016US travel Not only the Dutchy, in fact, but a whole bunch of people from the “Kachadourian Lodge” set
Gubbio boasts to have the biggest Christmas tree in the WORLD ! Well, duh….. it is a tree made out of 500 lights, posted on
YESSSSSSS !! Against all odds (we think) we sold our little apartment in the French Alps. We had it for almost 17 years and we
Well, we have STARTED to move at least. Just had news from our friends and neighbors in Umbria that the gas/heating system has been fixed…..
Our wonderful, cozy little apartment in the Trois Vallées area in France, smack in the middle of Europe’s largest skiing area, is for sale !
Nina and I decided it was high time for some exercise for a change. And since the sun was shining when we got up, we
A tutti i nostri (Facebook) amici italiani: siamo lieti di annunciare che siamo in procinto di acquistare una bella casa in Umbria, in un piccolo
Yup, that’s where we will be the next 4 weeks, riding our favorite mountain passes on the BMW, hiking to see the marmottes and eagles,
Reason why things are a bit ‘slow’ usually in summer is that we move our office to a ‘better’ place, i.e. a tiny room
CAT ! Here’s a picture of Nina you won’t see too often……. accompanied by… <gasp!>….. a CAT ! This was on our -unplanned long –
….. when you open the fridge and subsequently faint from the cheese smell jumping at you ! Nina and I DO have some different
Or it will be tomorrow when we leave the snowy white mountains to replace it for the usually drudgery that we call home……. or Holland.
Sorry for being absent for a while. Actually, I still am. Nina and I settled in our Eagles Nest for a few weeks, taking in
Have you ever thought about this? How amazingly wonderful our brains are in terms of ‘navigating’ the world. Oh well, admittedly, some people cannot discern
And that, my friends may sound strange from an embattled Europe where one COUNTRY after another shows similar deficits as the US and threatens to
I left the last blog post up there for a while. On purpose. I still cannot get over the fact that Steve has died. But
‘This’ being our awesome mountain world. And it IS dying, melting, eroding, being polluted, being filled with ski lifts and snowboard ramps, parkings and
Especially for our US customers who may not be aware…. European Summer Vacation Season encompasses some three months from June till September!! ‘We’ still think
For some time now I have been looking to get me a video camera so I can store our wonderful rides for future generations
Just sitting here, trying not to sweat too much in this horrible heat, and thinking that it is funny how some sounds remain with
Charlie. That’s what we called the old Antonov AN-2 sparaying the beach in Mamaia, Black Sea Coast, Romania, waaaaay back in 1974 when on
Imagine this: an everyday street in Romania with the entrance to the local cemetery, an a few flower shops next to it. Ofcourse, the
Just a heads-up for frequent visitors….. Nina and I will be heading east again for our yearly Romania Pilgrimage, visiting her brother and some
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