Here’s my last, and long, post about our trip in September 2025. In Scotland, they call a meandering lazy drive a “dauner.” We set off on one of those on our Sunday in Edinburgh, and it was a gorgeous sunny clear (and cool) day. We’d been braving a bit of rain now and then on our entire trip, and Edinburgh [...]

After gypsy jazz the night before in Paris, it was a bit of a challenge to get to Charles de Gaulle airport by 8:00am on a Wednesday morning in late September. Air France is not my favorite airline, but they got us to Auld Reekie (Old Smoky, Edinburgh’s nickname from the days when peat and coal fires filled the air [...]

Richard’s cousin Katherine had told us about a walkway Paris had installed atop a no longer used elevated railway, so we decided to check it out on a Sunday afternoon. It’s called Le Coulee Vert, the green gully. That’s a little odd because it’s way up in the air, but that’s the translation we kept getting when we looked it [...]

After a very full day with Richard’s cousins, on the next day, we slept in, barely made it to our hotel’s (expensive but delicious buffet) breakfast, worked out in the pool, and got a late start on gadding about. We moseyed over to Les Deux Magots (The Two Flies, as in, two flies on the wall discussing “don’t you wish [...]

On our seventh day in Paris, Richard’s cousins (and we’re talking distant, like about 4th or 5th cousins) had come to see us. They live in a village in eastern France about an hour’s drive from Strasbourg, the farthest east French city, right near the German border. Bernard and Eliane took the train, which is about a three or four [...]

Although our trip was lovely overall, we encountered another disappointment in addition to my physical difficulties in using my scooter on the slanted sidewalks. So, I’ll share this with you just so that you know that travel regrets don’t always turn out so badly. Also, this is the kind of digressive adventure available when staying in one location for more than [...]

If you’ve read parts I and II, you know that using my lightweight mobility scooter in Paris was particularly challenging, and that we ate a lot of lovely, delectable food! Now I’ll take you along to some of the places we visited and things we did—other than eat and scoot! Our first evening in Paris, as I said before, was [...]

Before launching into the cuisine we experienced in the City of Light, I’d like to share a little about how beneficial it has been to stay in places that have a pool. My primary exercise, due to polio as a child, is pool therapy. I do walking, jumping, arm and leg exercises and stretches, and swim for about 10% of [...]