So Paris is basically London but with more curlicues. This is what we know now.
And what else did we learn?

They speak French there. This is important, so I’ll say it again in italic. In France, the people speak French. It may not seem like privileged information, but no one had quite put it that […]

Winding up the European trip and thank goodness for that.
It’s been grand and it’s been strange, but it’s also been a long time and Greg and I are both ready to see the green, green grass of home, even if we have to spend 8 or so hours on a plane to do it. […]

Off the boat, back in London … just in time for more European anxiety over the Dutch ‘no’ vote. And from where I sit, there are human factors that seem like they made this vote a foregone conclusion.
BBC last night was full of the news of the Dutch voting down the EU constitution and what […]

Oh my. I don’t know that I’ll say much more than this — if you have any way to get to Edinburgh, do it. Of all the places we’ve been on this very fine cruise, it was the best. Not that Greenock and Dublin and Belfast and London weren’t wonderful, but Edinburgh seemed to bring […]

Through the magic of the zoom lens, I can add another photograph to the body of
scientific evidence of the Loch Ness monster.
How terrifying it was! How we few tourists felt a chill to the bones at seeing that dark form moving silently through the waters at a speed that can only be described as leisurely. […]

I’ve had trouble knowing where to begin talking about the two Irish cities we’ve visited. The last time I was in Ireland was in the early 80’s, and it’s good to see that their economy now isn’t what it was then, when a passing Irishman noted me looking at a long line outside of a […]

Doesn’t it seem like death would be like leaving for a vacation? Or is it just like that when I do it?

I’ve known about this trip for half a year. I’ve been planning for it for months. I’ve been setting aside time from my job and taking care of all the necessary payments, details, paperwork […]

I’m was in Chicago for the day yesterday, and Greg-the-husband had given me a wondrous gift of time. And so I found myself at 10 am on a rainy, cold morning huddled in the doorway of what I think is the best art museum I’ve ever seen — the Art Institute in Chicago.
When Greg let […]

When the St. Barnabas featured speaker Dr. John Mark Reynolds had been talking for a while, Greg leaned over and said, “Admit it — you’re going to blog about this.” I looked at him in some surprise. I was? What was I going to say? After only a short time, it was obvious I wouldn’t […]

My flight came in on time, but Greg’s was 1 1/2 hours delayed, so deja vu — once again sitting in the LA Airport. Or LAX, as the baggage tags say. Where do they get these acronyms from anyway? Where’d the ‘x’ come from? And if I was sitting outside of the airport, would I […]