Author Archives: Judith Wencel

Bikes to Place Stalingrad, see canal and toll house, walk along St. Martin Canal. Watched boats go through locks. Cool. Walked through Place Republique and down Vieux du Temple toward the Carreau du Temple. Found some bikes and road to apt. M back out for fish, made super tasty lunch of fish and leftovers. WentContinue reading “Oct 2, 2014 – Canal St Martin”

Happy Third Anniversary to Katharine and George! 🙂 Gretchen headed for the airport at 8:30 and Mark needed one more serious morning of catching up on sleep so I worked on the VRBO site for the Estes Park house, processed photos and wrote a few notes for the blog. At about 12:30 we pulled aContinue reading “Oct 1, 2014 – Bikes, Raphael, Honey, J-C and Olivia”

Today was all about catching up – on each other’s lives, on correspondence, writing, photos and on SLEEP. In the morning, Gretchen and I worked on various things and chatted about this and that and tried to make ourselves think the milk in our cafe au laits hadn’t gone bad but it really did haveContinue reading “Sept 30, 2014 – Catching Up, ZKG, Bea”

We had one last cappuccino then the Humphries took me to Linate (about 35 minutes). Caught Easyjet (truly easy) to Paris, then hopped on the OrlyVal train two stops and changed to RER B into the city. (NB – hang onto the little metro ticket as it is needed to exit from the train, asContinue reading “Sept 29, 2014 – Milan to Paris”

Up, cappuccino, drove to Cernusco-Merate to catch train to Milan for exploring and soccer game (Humphries) and walking (me). Missed train (it was sitting there when we pulled up but we didn’t have time to park and catch it) so Plan B was to drive to Sesto San Giovanni (Sesto Primo Maggio train station), parkContinue reading “Sept 28, 2014 – Day in Milan”