Day Four, Bordeaux Unravels
7:45 a.m. came a lot faster than I anticipated. My stomach, it had seemed, was still settling from the 5 course meal the prior evening. But, like a moth to the flame,...
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Day Three: Bordeaux
My alarm went off at 5:45 a.m. this morning and with it came a wistful exhale and soft groan. It wasn’t just the fact that it was so early and I had...
Disney Dream, not France
Francophile that I am, it’s my colleague, Cassandra Shofar, who is blogging from France this week. I’ve received a few emails and phone calls from regular blog readers asking why I’m not...
Day Two in Paris
Day two, and I’m still floating in a dream. It’s currently 11:49 p.m. in Paris and I just got back from a dinner cruise on the Seine River. The dinner portion included...
Day One In France
The plane ride was rough, no doubt. A five-hour layover in Newark and six-hour flight on AirFrance. Yet here I am, in Paris again. And completely breathless. Today marked the first of...
Goodbye to Croatia
Sunset over the Adriatic is sublime. Sunday’s News-Herald Travel section will include the last of my Croatia stories, written from my September experiences aboard the Romanca and on a few of Croatia’s...
Muslim Q&A coming to Kirtland
A pervasive atmosphere of fear has begun to affect my stories, notably one intended for the News-Herald’s Religion page on Saturday. It was an interview with the two Muslims who will be...
Adventure Tuesday
Peter Grubb poses with a statue of Petar Hektorovic, an early Croatian poet. Peter Grubb, founder of ROW International, was the genius behind my September voyage among the Adriatic islands off Croatia...
Octopus, oysters and creatures of the briny Adriatic
An octopus is pulled from the sea. See it wiggle on the video. Shipmate Dave Legge helps open oysters so we can taste them. Fish in Croatia are served with their heads...
Figs to pomegranates, olives to oskorusa ripen in Croatia’s sun
The figs weren’t quite ripe but we passed plenty of them during our hikes on Croatia’s islands. Mediterranean fruits and vegetables were commonly encountered during our harvest season voyage among the Adriatic...
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