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the region in photos

the region in photos

I haven’t posted a lot of pictures lately, so I figured that today I’d write a bit of a photo-journal and include a few photos here so that people might see what we’ve been up to and what the region around Clermont-Ferrand looks like. a few weekends...

Auvergne

this has truly been a weekend for eating. last night a friend had a group of friends from Lyon come for dinner, and we all had Raclette – it was awesome. Part of the fun was the way you eat it – since you basically melt pieces of cheese over ham, bread and...

baguettes for everyone

I am back in France. The trip was long (from 8AM EST yesterday until about 5PM France time today) and arduous (highlights included sitting in a tiny plane on the runway at Pearson for an hour and a half, and sitting in the train station in Paris for a good three and a...

where am I?

I am in France. The past two days have seemed more like a single long day of traveling to me – I flew Continental from Toronto to Newark, and then from Newark to Paris through the night. The flights were uneventful, but they could have been eventful. When I got...

deep in the heart

last week we made the 28-hour drive to Austin, Texas, where we are currently staying. One of Yvonne’s brothers and his wife lives here, and her older sister and her family lives in San Antonio, so we have been largely hanging out with them. Austin seems to be a...

Wilmington

after my final on Friday Yvonne and I took a trip to Wilmington, North Carolina to meet up with Yvonne’s two brothers, Robert and Fronz, plus Robert’s roommate Gerry, to celebrate Robert’s birthday on Saturday. We took a tour of the Bellamy Mansion...