The journey from Strasbourg to Schirmeck is exactly 50 kilometers and when you get off the train, you will likely find – as we did – this moderately alarming sign, indicating (even with my limited grasp of French) that you are about to set off (notice French words below: traversee and massif) on a long […]
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Strasbourg presents the standard travel challenges
We have arrived in Strasbourg and look!!! we are with our travel buddies, Kris and Jim! We travel well together because we have a lot of the same interests. Here, for example, is our joint happiness at finding a free bathroom with toilet paper and functional toilets: And here I am – sent into a […]
Heading to the Baltics!
It’s true, as many of you point out, that I’m always planning complicated trips that take us out of the US for weeks at a time. But my heart is tied forever to the Pacific Northwest, where I happily remain all summer, taking walks that include the amazing Puget Sound view you see above. For […]
Wrapping up: The dogs of Romania and other beasts
One of the big things I heard about Romania before I got here was that there has been a huge stray dog population – but I never really understood why the dogs were all loose and feral. Do you know why? Ceausescu. Remember when I said he came to power and displaced 40,000 people to […]
Travels with Valerie 