Travels with Valerie

We came to Amboise to relax a bit after Paris and have a few days to see chateaux. Amboise sits in the Loire Valley – site of the greatest concentration of chateaux in France. There are about 300 here and we are seeing 5. Today we saw the two that sit right in Amboise – […]

We’re in Amboise now, with two days of chateaux to visit. The above picture is a baguette vending machine at the train station, and should have been an indicator of how serious the baguette business is here. We had a couple of hours before we got access to our apartment and so we planted ourselves […]

I am glad you were not trailing along behind us yesterday as we went about our touristing business. Had you been there, you would intuited the speedy demise/need for mediation of our relationship. The problem is, as always, Ron and his heartfelt belief that he knows where we are when there are really no facts […]

I woke up this morning here in lovely Paris and the CNN ticker had an article that said People Who Eat More Dairy Fat Have Lower Risk of Heart Disease and I knew there was a breakfast buffet full of cheese and buttery croissants awaiting me downstairs and I felt a sense of immense health/cardiac […]