Last year, when we were in Paris for a month, we never boarded a bus because we were intimidated. We have always been able to master…

Tim and I behave like dogs and small children when we are being driven around Paris by cabbies or friends…

Tim and I manage somehow to attract good fortune: we have excellent health, wonderful friends, both new and dearly familiar, charming families who love us, great lodging karma,

We had been holed up in our Costa da Caparica beach house in Portugal for two weeks when our chief tour director …

April 6, 2013 The Portuguese people are warm, polite and welcoming, so  even cool, blustery, wet March weather couldn’t spoil our five week …

February 26, 2013 Today it’s snowing in Paris, there are blizzards in Phoenix, and it’s not very warm here in Lisbon,