This town really knows how to celebrate! We have just concluded celebrating The Day of the Dead, with multiple parades, flower-adorned doorways, painted faces, costumes, and lots and lots of fireworks! This week, we celebrate the US expat community's Thanksgiving. We've had the Canadian celebration; this coming Thursday, we will celebrate ours. Don't want to …
I flew from Paris to Wilmington, NC, on the 2nd of September, where I spent 10 days in my 'private guest room' as my good friends, Janet and Bob, call it whenever I descend upon them for a lengthy stay. While there, Janet got to play with an adorable dog while I got my hair …
My 6 weeks in the tiny village of Lagrasse will come to an end tomorrow. It has certainly been a time of quiet contemplation, lots of reading of good books, streaming of lots of movies and TV shows, long walks, some really good food, and many glasses of great wine accompanied by homemade foie gras …
Many years ago (2015), if anyone has been following me that long, you might remember I spent a quiet response on the Canal du Midi outside the village of Capstang, and toured the Medieval old town in Carcassonne. I even had a chance to spend a day dipping my toes in the Med! But I …
I hate to bother you, but for those who receive a copy of my blog posts in your email inbox whenever I write a new one, I need to know if you received a truly weird email when I recently posted My Amazing Month in London? stating it was from WordPress and claiming it was …
Sometimes fate is kind and you find the perfect house and pet sit with a most generous, and hospitable homeowner, who has a loveable, if very vocal feline, in a location that has fantastic transportation, a mile-long High Street Market filled with fresh fruit & veggies, and vendors of all kinds, in walking distance to …
For the past two weeks, the 'anomaly' of beautiful, sunshine-filled days has continued, which made exploring Belfast and the countryside so much more pleasant. Since the last time I posted, I have walked through a bubble-filled archway in the tiny alleyway downtown; spent a lovely Friday morning wandering through St. George's Market; spent a lovely …
I've been getting emails, and phone calls asking me 'where you you now?' Like the the children's series of books called Where's Waldo? or that game, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, friends are asking where did ReAnn go after her time in the Algrave ended? BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND! My good friend, Ruth, whom …
PARIS I talked my friend, Jan, while visiting me in Portugal in March, to fly to Paris to attend four of the largest and most jaw-dropping fashion exhibits ever mounted in the City of Lights...and Haute Couture. In the 3 days we were there, besides the exhibitions, we saw as much as we could possibly …
....have come to an end. I can hardly believe that 3 months have sped past so quickly. I arrived in my little fishing village of Ferragudo on the 22nd of January. As a US passport holder, you are only allowed to stay in the Schengen area of Europe for 90 days. They are very strict …
My Home on the Roam 