June 15, 2022 “He who gets the grace of the women is neither hungry nor thirsty.” -Breton Proverb We traveled southwest into the wilds of...

June 14, 2022 “Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each...

June 13, 2022 "We'll start the war from right here." --Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of the former president, who landed...

June 12, 2022 “Just look at it, gentlemen. How calm... how peaceful it is. A strip of water between England and the continent... between...

June 11, 2022 “History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..” ― M.J. Colewood, The Last Treasure of Ancient...

June 10, 2022 “Here is the thing….everything, I mean everything tastes better here. Its amazing…” -Glenn Dobbs at lunch today There is a...

June 9, 2022 “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Or close the wall up with our English dead……….. I see you stand like...

June 8, 2022 “If it had not been for his malice, forcing me to return, I would have been able to recover the whole of Outremer. (Crusader...

June 7, 2022 “It was now autumn, and I made up my mind to make, before winter set in, an excursion across Normandy, a country with which...

June 6, 2022 “The French air cleans up the brain and does good - a world of good” - Vincent Van Gogh It took two days, three plane rides,...

May 26, 2022 “….But this is what I’m finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I’m...

“(We) Talk of poems and prayers and promises and things that we believe in How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care How...

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” - Gustave Flaubert We have been talking about it for the...

“To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of...

“MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that...

March 14, 2022 “There is no beginning too small” - Henry David Thoreau Anyone who has ever read these postcards from our travels knows...

March 13, 2022 “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” - Agnes Repplier Trains really are wonderful things. ...

March 10-12, 2022 “To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.” - St Teresa of Avila...

March 8-9, 2022 “We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we...

March 7, 2022 “I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown…….These people are very unskilled in...