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The story resumes: We left Fragnes the next morning and spent the day cruising slowly up the canal to the town of Chagny. It was a peaceful, smooth, and except for the bustle at each lock, blissfully uneventful day spent…

So many adventures! I had such good intentions of posting every day that I had wifi, but wifi on the canal was rarer than expected and then this happened: I slipped and fell down the companionway and pulled the hatch…

On the first day of our canal adventure we piled 8 people (me, my husband, his parents, his sister, her husband, and our two kids) into a rented boat and headed up the Saône River. We stopped for lunch at…

We’re on a boat, cruising up the Saône River in Burgundy, so wifi is spotty and I can’t post as much, but I had to share a couple of photos today. We picked up the boat in Gigny-sur-Saône, which is…

Surprise, after all that walking, I’ve got a wicked blister on my toe!  Today I wanted to see  La Conciergerie, once the site of a medieval royal palace and now most famous as the last prison of Marie Antoinette, so…

Today started with a brisk walk from our apartment to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, at the far end of the Louvre (right about where the Tuileries Metro stop is on this map): No photos to show from the museum,…

I took a very long walk in Paris today.  I looked up at rooflines and down at paving stones, into shop windows, at the statues on the Louvre, at birds, at bushes, at windowboxes, at homeless people, at graffiti, at…

The Maine State 420 Championships were in Castine last week (a 420 is a kind of sailboat), and my son was competing, so I spent a day on the waterfront, beachcombing and watching the races from afar. The day started…