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Resting and Reading in the House There has not been much of any email connection for us over the last ten days. I had actually forgotten what it feels like to be on a dial-up line. We’ve now left Crete. P. is back home while I arrived in France yesterday. I have much to show [...]

Home Village in France A different culture. A different climate. A different country. I am now in my home village in France, Busy picking apples, Playing with Ortie the cat, And taking walks to meet the cows. Tomorrow, I will bake an apple tart.

The loud pattering noise the rain made when it hit the blinds woke me up. For a second, I imagined we could be in the middle of a storm, like the ones my friend N. and I used to experience when she and I still lived in New Zealand, in the small drafty wooden house [...]

Walking in Paris The change of scenery happens with a last stop in Paris….

La Place des Vosges in Paris Or how to spend my last day walking in Paris We shall talk soon, once I am on the other side of the big blue again.

Many thanks to you, readers, who gave me lots of great, useful recommendations that proved very handy while traveling in Crete. Vacationing in Crete “You will smell olive trees and oregano when you land,” my French friend E. tells me when I tell her about our upcoming trip. Her parents are Greek, but they moved [...]

Coconut Milk Mussel Soup Did you remember too? It’s officially fall. And oh oh, how excited I am! I mean, I could feel sorry that we say good bye to the longest sunny days of the year; there will no longer be any seasonal strawberries or red currants; I will have to wait until next [...]

Many thanks to Sha, Joe, Heinz and Helene, and Michael who gave plenty of useful tips about Athens, and Crete. I wish I had had time to do it all! We also missed dinner at Varoulko restaurant (following Michael’s recommendation, because it was closed!) Walking in Athens After already a transatlantic flight behind us, we [...]