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Tour de France, Stage 13

For our second day following the Tour, we took the train south to the village of Saint Clair du Rhône. We arrived early enough to see the promotional caravan, where…

Tour de France, Stage 12

As we were planning our visit to France, we learned that the famous bicycle race would be passing to the west and south of Lyon in late July. We made…

Pérouges

One sunny afternoon we took a short train ride twenty miles northeast of Lyon to the medieval hilltop town of Pérouges. Although inhabited since before Roman times, most of the…

Lyon outdoors

When the sun came out in Lyon we paid a visit to the city’s largest park, Parc de la Tête d’Or. We wandered by the deer field and made our…

Lyon’s museums

Lyon was cool and damp our first few days in town, so we spent time in some of its more interesting museums.

Around Lyon

We left Milan early one morning to catch the TGV to the northwest and the French city of Lyon. The third largest city in France, we’ve been enjoying its restaurants,…

A visit from Kim’s father

About the same time that Chels and Co. were in town, Kim’s father paid us a visit from California. One day we took a short road trip to the nearby…

Pics from Paul and Ana

Paul and Ana returned to the comfortable environs of western Washington, got their film developed and sent along a few photos from their collection.

A visit from Paul and Ana, part 2

After visiting England for a week, we all piled onto the Eurostar and headed off to Paris. Paul and Kim planned the trip as a surprise birthday present for Ana,…

Ahh, Paris

During the last weekend in April, Kim and I spent four days wandering the streets of Paris, the city that hosted our honeymoon three years earlier. It did rain a…