France holds a lot of history for both of us. Ben was born in Paris and spent most of his childhood in France. We have been traveling here together for years, at least a dozen times, never tiring of it,…
Gems from Spain’s Costa Brava ~ Llanca, Besalu and Cadaques
From Tarragona, Spain we take a high speed train heading towards the North Eastern region of Spain, just below the border with France. A home exchange request had come our way, a few months earlier, from a family with an apartment in…
Under the shadow of a mountain ~ Nomads in Tarragona, Spain
The topic has often come up in the past about the implication of living a nomadic life, when it comes to friends. Default thinking is of friends being geographically close. And yet, we often point out, this does not have…
“Poya” ~ Full Moon, in Colombo, Sri Lanka
It is a full moon in Sri Lanka, and that means one thing: “Poya”. Poya is a religious and national holiday, a Buddhist practice that celebrates every full moon, a time for Sri Lanka’s Buddhists to flock to temple under…
Back in our rustic paradise ~ Sri Lanka
Back home in Sri Lanka after being “on the road” for six weeks, we spring into action to get the little house we live in, in as good shape as possible, as we have quite a few home exchanges coming…
Green Global WRECK ~ June 2018
Months ago, which seems like years ago, when the Trump administration was installed courtesy of Russian intel ops strategies, I forecasted that by mid 2018, the Russia investigation would be getting so damaging, that Trump would badly need to change…
Postcards from France ~ La Rochelle
Our meander through France has been so enjoyable that the idea of turning in the car in Toulouse to sit in an airport to wait for a short flight back to Paris, does not seem like such a good idea…
Postcards from France ~ Biarritz and Saint Jean de Luz
The thought of a road trip in France brings to my mind “Asterix”, the wildly successful comic strip, and specifically the one when Asterix and Obelix go on an epic tour of France to source quality gastronomic specialties for a…