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September 10, 2008

Crete’s Lingering Summer — L’été qui se prolonge en Crête

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 you, [...]

September 11, 2008

Home Village in France

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.

September 14, 2008

Seasonal Apple Cake — Le gâteau aux pommes saisonnier

Recipe: Upside Down Apple Cake, with Olive Oil, Vanilla and Cinnamon

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 [...]

September 18, 2008

Paris

Walking in Paris

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

September 19, 2008

A Favorite in Paris: la Place des Vosges

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.

September 20, 2008

South of Greece, there is Crete — Au sud de la Grèce, il y a la Crète

Recipe: Tzatziki & Moussaka

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 to France [...]

September 24, 2008

Coconut Milk Mussel Soup — Soupe de moules au lait de coco

Recipe: Coconut Milk Mussel Soup

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 year [...]

September 26, 2008

Traveling to Athens via Munich — Athènes via Munich

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 still had [...]

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