Wanderlusty Wednesday: Normandy in Spring

A brief break in the reading and writing content today for me to reminisce on the fact that it’s been 10 years since I left Normandy, and still, it’s rare a day will go by that I don’t think of that place and my experiences there.

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On Traveling Alone

Time for another travel essay. Today’s topic: that time I decided to travel alone. 

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Travel Tip: Talk to Strangers

Time for another travel essay. Today’s topic: on why you should talk to strangers while traveling. 

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The French Shrug (or, How I Almost Committed Horse-Theft)

Time for another travel essay. Today, one of the things I do not miss about France.

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Wanderlusty Wednesday

Just a quick note to say I’ve started a new job this week and I’m a bit busy, to say the least. This weekend I need to figure out a way to have time to work, and write, and blog, and sleep. (If anyone has any tips, please let me know.) And it’s Wanderlusty Wednesday, […]

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Wanderlusty Wednesday: Bayeux

To continue my France kick…

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Wanderlusty Wednesday: D-Day Beaches

Having lived in Normandy for a year, it would have been more than remiss of me never to see arguably the region’s biggest draw…

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Wanderlusty Wednesday: Les plages de la Normandie

I meant to do a post about traveling to the D-Day beaches in Normandy today, but I do not have time. So for now I’ll leave you with this photo of one of those beaches–they’re oddly incredibly peaceful today–with more info to come next week. Stay tuned!

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Wanderlusty Wednesday

I wish I was on a beach somewhere, anywhere, instead of in the office today. That is all. Image taken by me on a beach near Cherbourg, France, March 2007.

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Wanderlusty Wednesday: Giverny

Time to talk about one of my favorite places on earth… Do you like flowers? Of course you do. They’re beautiful and fragrant. Do you like Monet? How could you not? His paintings are beautiful. So I suggest you head to the place that feels like you’ve just stepped into one of his paintings: Giverny, in […]

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