If Walt and I ever decide to sell this house and move to a place where we can walk to markets, grocery stores, and restaurants, Bourges will be a place I'll want to explore. It's bigger than Blois but smaller than Tours or Orléans. It's two hours from Paris by train, though I'm not sure how much I'll be going to Paris in the future.
Have I mentioned how nice the weather has been for the past three or four weeks? It's been perfect in many ways. We been having cool mornings and comfortably warm afternoons and evenings. It's been good weather for cooking on the barbecue grill at lunchtime and for sleeping at night. Skies have been blue. There's the rub: we really need some rain. And we are supposed to get some over the coming weekend. It might be in the form of thunderstorms.
Hi Ken, here in the Drôme the weather has been the opposite - nice mornings then afternoon thunderstorms and SO much rain. We need it though after last year’s drought. Hope you get a rainy weekend and we’re hoping for a dry one!
ReplyDeleteI've been seeing the weather reports about storms and heavy rains in the southeast. I wish you a sunny weekend, and us a rainy one. We really need the rain, We don't need a summer like last year's,.
DeleteI wish there was more within walking distance here.
ReplyDeleteI guess you have to be in a very densely populated city and neighborhood to be close enough to all those businesses for them to be within walking distance.
DeleteIt's hard to know when it is time to move. You will have lots of good choices. I hope you get some rain. It's really dry chez nous now.
ReplyDeleteThe weather has turned muggy all of a sudden. It was predicted. We should get some rain over the weekend.
DeleteJune can be a lovely month :) (Or not --ha!)
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DeletePerhaps the answer is too personal, but why are you reluctant to travel to Paris? You've hinted at this a number of times and so I'm curious. I mean, I'm nearly your age and I make the trip across the ocean several times a year. Surely easier than hopping on a comfy train to Paris?
ReplyDeleteThe question is not too personal. Walt and I have a dog so we can't easily go to Paris together. Somebody needs to stay with the dog. I don't enjoy going to Paris alone. And now that I live in France, I don't feel the need to go to Paris that I felt when I lived in California. That's why I decided to come live in France 20 years ago. I'd appreciate it if you would tell me who you are.
DeleteSorry - it used to be that I automatically appeared under my name (Nina) and with my blog was also identified (ninacamic.blogspot.com). Under the new terms, it defaulted here to Anonymous, as if I was trying to be one of those creepy people who refuse to say who they are! I've been reading your blog for probably as long as you've been posting. I live in Wisconsin, but because I feel European (born there), I have taken to traveling to Europe about four times a year. My partner gave up on going with me so these days I either meet up with a friend, or a grandchild, or in the vast majority of cases -- I travel alone. Having found a hotel I love in Paris where they know me and treat me well, I never really feel isolated there. There's a certain grand pleasure in being in charge of your own days while away from home! Thanks for writing every day. I do it too and I know how hard it can be at times.
DeleteThanks, Nina. I remember corresponding with you. I just had a look at your blog and remember reading it before. I would love to know Wisconsin better but have only been there a couple of times. I came to Madison once back in 1982, just for a few hours. I knew a guy who was a student at the university there. In fact, I almost went to grad school there. And earlier I had gone a camping trip up through Wisconsin, out onto the UP of Michigan, and then down through lower Michigan back to Champaign-Urbana, where I was a grad student in the 1970s. When and if I decide to go to Paris again, I'll have to ask you about the hotel you've found there. I lived in Paris in 1974-76 and again in 1978-82, so I know it pretty well — though a lot has changed over the years.
DeleteThere's a small group -- Hotels Paris Rive Gauche (with a website by that name) that has 6 hotels, all on the left bank, close to the 5th, but actually in the 6th. After trying many many left bank places in the 5th, 6th, and 7th, I finally settled on the, Baume. It's in an ideal location for me. Could not be better. Close to everything I love. Quiet. It used to be 3 stars and that was just fine. Then it renovated and went to 4 and now it can be expensive except in the off off season. I still go there. How many more years will I be trudging to Paris after all... But in my more frugal moments I stay at their Design Sorbonne -- I like it too, though not as much as Baume. And yes, I've commented here before, though not nearly as often as your regulars! :)
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