Monthly Archives: July 2015

6 posts

Cruising the Rhône (part 2)

While our ship sailed from Lyon to Vienne, we were served a Provençal lunch onboard. Here, you can see the menu and how the dishes were displayed for us.   As we ate, our ship went through a few locks on the way to Vienne.           […]

Cruising the Rhône (part 1)

After leaving my sister and brother-in-law, my husband and I flew to the south of France to board a river ship, the Viking Buri. The cruise was to take us from the Saône River to the Rhône and then down almost to the coast. Our first day put us in […]

Paris! (part 2)

The day after we went into Paris, we all took off on a road trip to Royaumont Abbey, a lovely, peaceful spot with no huge crowds to deal with. Most of the interior was off-limits, as it’s used for performances, and rehearsals were in progress. However, we saw what was […]

Paris! (part 1)

I know it’s been a while since my last post, but I have a very good excuse: my husband and I have been in France! We left home early on July 14, which was pretty appropriate, since it’s the French national holiday. We landed the next day and met my […]

More summer activity

Remember this post from almost two weeks ago? The weekly blocks keep coming, so I’ve done two more since then. The first was the car in which the participants would “ride” to the various destinations, and the second took us to Boston. The third came out a week ago and […]

Variation on a theme

Those elephants I showed you about a week ago reminded me that I had a pattern for a pin cushion that I’d been planning to make. Elephants may never forget, but I do! LOL! Anyway, this pattern was for an elephant pin cushion — a really cute one. It was trickier to […]