Along the Breathtaking Rhine River Gorge
Bonjour mes amis, The peak of our Rhine River cruise was today’s anticipation of the famous Rhine River Gorge. (It’s the television commercial we all see from Viking Cruise Lines) To experience this in ideal fashion, the weather should be warm, clear, blue skies and no wind. We waked up to freezing cold temps […]
Caregiving Can Be an Act of Waiting
It has been my unexpected pleasure for the past ten years to date a Parisian, a wonderful man named Bernie, or “Bernard” in French. He is seven years my senior and will be turning 75 years old in just a few weeks. He’s really more American than anything, but his native land and language (as […]
Cruising to Strasbourg and Heildelberg, Germany
Bonjour! We have been busy over the past couple of days. It’s just exceedingly hard work to have this much fun, and we’re exhausted! Food, food and more food and excursions, entertainment, laughter, strolling…all are just consuming us! Many thanks to Doris Todd at Custom Travel for putting together our Burritt Cruisers group again this […]
Rhine River Cruise in Alsace
Bonsoir, Welcome to the MS AmaDolce, a 130 passenger river boat which will be our home away from Paris for the next week as we cruise along the Rhine river in the Alsace region of France/Germany. The weather today was in the mid 50’s, cloudy, very windy and looking like it would rain any minute. […]
Le Weekend in Alsace, France
Bonsoir, We have spent a delightful weekend in the Alsace region of France in a lovely village called Soultz. We took the train from Paris to a town very near Soultz and were greeted by Pierre and Laurie Verdier with smiling faces and hugs yesterday afternoon about 6pm. We are very near the German border […]
Strolling Surprises around Ile de la Cite in Paris
Bonjour mes amis, We can’t tell you how many times we’ve walked across, around and beside Ile de la Cite in the heart of Paris, home to Notre Dame, Sainte Chapelle, Palais du Justice and beautiful bridges. HOWEVER, we had never been around on the opposite side toward the point and lovely park. At Bernie’s […]
Christmas in October in Paris — Just Like at Home
Bonjour, It’s been a gray day here but not a rainy or chilly day; therefore, much better for getting ourselves up and moving! Since our time is getting shorter and shorter and soon busier and busier, we decided to go out to La Defense or contemporary Paris today. It’s a 16-stop jaunt on the Metro. […]
Too Chilly to Venture Far Today in Paris
Bonjour on a rainy, cool day! What do you do on a cold, rainy day in Paris? You stay pretty close to home! We’re brave but not so today as the chilly rain put a kabosh on any big plans. Not to despair, however, as we have some great photos of several unique shops that […]