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Here in Bordeaux, we went to the Museum of Aquitaine, which tells the v-e-r-y l-o-n-g story of the history of Bordeaux from prehistoric times until now. There was a lot of information about Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France from 1137 to 1152 who seems memorialized for being an outspoken, beautiful and complicated woman at […]

Wines can be grouped into six main families: red, dry white, rose, sparkling wine, fortified wine and sweet wine. I learned this – and only this – from a sign in the Cite du Vin, a really famous wine museum in Bordeaux. My personal InfoBox/headset thing shut down after a minute or two – maybe […]

Today was the travel day I was most worried about back home in Seattle (in hindsight, yesterday’s train debacle day was the day I should have worried about the most, but hey…) We are now hauling Sam and Kris around with us and so anything I mess up disappoints 3 other people instead of just […]

When we left Amboise, I announced to Ron that it was going to be a very nice transit day because we had nice first class seats on the train and it was a pretty quick ride. And I should know better than to make a statement like this. My pronouncements trigger reverse corollary chaos. We […]