Author Archives: runsailwrite

Arles holds one of the remaining Roman colosseums as well as the Théatre Ancien, built in the last part of the 1st century BC. We found a parking lot instantly 200 meters from the colosseum, a virtual miracle. We walked … Continue reading →

We spent the day, Sunday, walking around Avignon, window shopping closed stores, eating too many carbs for breakfast (a whole baguette and a croissant each with buerre et confiture). I observed what I had observed in Paris on my first … Continue reading →

Back to La Ciotat! La Ciotat in spring is a mix of intense wind, intense sunlight, boats and more boats, and at the shipyard, launches. The city is bouncing back from some hard times when the shipyard closed down for … Continue reading →

Welcome to Nice, France. Don’t leave anything in your car. Even the lit, guarded, parking garage the Hotel Suisse sends you to. We left extra luggage in the car in the back of the station wagon, covered as recommended, and … Continue reading →

Glorious and crowded, full of history and churches and cliched old haunts. Ruins of ruins built upon ruins. We saw so many school groups and I pitied them- kids growing up here have such a burden of history to learn. … Continue reading →

Nice view!

We drove from Puerto Vallarta to Sayulita, a charming beach and surfing town with great little shops and restaurants.

Last year’s route. Next year’s route: Plan A and just for fun, cutest baby in the world, my great-niece, Josie. I can’t help it.

We spent a wonderful Holiday at home visiting friends and family and not skiing, for lack of snow. Now that we’re back home, we starting to think about next season. We look back at what we did last season, which … Continue reading →

European capital of culture for 2013. They dressed up and made the waterfront shine! This was a memorial to the victims of the holocaust and a promise to never forget.