30 Years In The Making… GREAT NEWS! The end of summer flew by with French administrative tasks and the crud. Yes, Covid is alive and well. My case was so mild if Russ hadn’t insisted on my testing, I wouldn’t have realized that I had it until he came down with a monster version. But…
FIRSTS! July and August have been months of firsts – first visitors from the States and first trip as residents of France. Fast friends. Jeanne and I met in 2001 when we both participated in a retreat where we were randomly assigned as roommates. We’ve been fast friends since. Luckily for me, her then fiancé,…
September 2023 couldn’t get here fast enough. Patience is not one of our family’s best virtues, and we were chomping at the bit to get back to France and apply our carefully considered requirements to finding a map dot. Montpellier was our predetermined favorite, but Pau and Toulouse were contenders in the map dot quest….
Two trips, multiple seminars, and countless YouTube videos into pondering retirement in Europe greatly refined our thought process. A vision of our future existed: Barcelona could have fit in the above, but another factor helped my campaign for a French Revolution. After our last visit, part of the opposition government in the city was thrown…
In 2019, a year after our Spain trip, it was time for another European adventure. Paris-Barcelona-Paris-Home. Three weeks of a magical adventure. I love Paris and apparently, I was determined to drag Russ around to everything near and dear to my heart. In my mind what a better way to trounce jet lag than to…
Spanish Adventure Russ and I were continuously in the process of researching what moving overseas meant to us and the next step seemed logical: visit. We set up a savings account aptly named Travel Fund and started planning our Spanish adventure. Our itinerary would start in Barcelona, then travel by high-speed train down the Mediterranean…
