France “You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.” James Baldwin I wake up and think about editing yesterday’s post. So much ranting… We have nothing planned today, and I feel good about this. I make some porridge, and we drink plenty…
Category: France
Véronique et Thomas Muré
France “It all begins with the soil, the vine, the grape. The smell of the vineyard – like inhaling birth” Steven Spurrier A sleep in and a lack of motivation for a morning walk. Instead, vitality building calisthenics to prepare us for the day ahead. Today we taste the wine from one of the most…
Guebwiller
France “The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” Plato For the next few days, I will play amongst lovely things. A good sleep and a slow start to the morning. Only four hours to Domaine Bohème I art de vivre, the most impressively cool apartment, in the…
Guebwiller – France
“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.” F. Scott Fitzgerald I slept well. Our place has floor to ceiling windows on two sides, and I thought the light would keep us awake. Somehow, in the heart…
All Roads Lead to Burgundy
Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen. Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord It shocks me how quickly my body loses conditioning. It probably shouldn’t. I am old, I am eating terribly, and I have been drinking mightily. It is devastating what regular alcohol does to the body. Still, I am only a week…