First Poetry Post in a While

As you can see, I have been trying to catch up posting about my trip. We still haven’t uploaded all the pictures and all so I am sure there is more to come; more to digest once I have had time to reflect.
On the poetry end, I find it interesting that I right little when [...]

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Day 8–Final Full Day in Paris

Well I am finally back to the present! As I type this it is 8:17pm in Paris but I know back home it is 2:18pm because I never change the time on my laptop.
The weather forecast for this morning wasn’t supposed to be great so we slept in a bit and didn’t head out until [...]

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Day 7–1st of two full days in Paris

Today we got up at a pretty early hour because we wanted to get to the Louvre shortly after it opened if possible. We got there at about 9:45 an it opened at 9:30. The first time we went to Paris we only saw a little of the Louvre and were so exhausted by [...]

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Day 6–And We are off to Paris

Today would be the first day that I really couldn’t go back to sleep after waking up too early, of course! We left pretty early to make the trip back to Paris. The drive was pretty painless until we got to the airport. The rental contract listed directions for the return of the rental [...]

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Day 5–Last Day in Normandy

Since we had covered the highlights from our list of things to do, Wednesday was just going to be a “clean up” day of sorts. By Wednesday we had racked up quite a few driving kilometers and we were still dealing with rainy weather.
First thing on Wednesday I got up to finish drying the [...]

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Day 4 and the Rain Continues

We got up a bit later on Tuesday even though we knew this was going to be a day of a lot of windshield time.
First we drove out to St. Malo which is pictured above. This is a walled city that we didn’t spend a lot of time in. The weather was pretty bad [...]

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Day 3 in Normandy France

On Monday, our third day of vacation it started out with rain. A lot of what we had planned for the trip was outside so I thought we should head for something that we weren’t pinning a lot of hopes on first. We went to Juno Beach and there wasn’t a lot to see. It [...]

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