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Last night I was writing a blog post. The windows in our third-floor apartment were open and periodically the streets below would resonate with cheering, singing and chanting. Last night was the European sports equivalent of the Super Bowl in the U.S. It was the UEFA Champion League final match …
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We have been in Nimes France for 11 days. We do like some museums, but for an unexplored reason we had yet to visit one here. First stop was the Contemporary Art Museum. We had gone to its doors yesterday, but it was unexpectedly closed without explanation. Well today, closed again, but with …
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There is a section of Nimes, France that has many street art murals. It is just above the old town section where we are staying. They title it "Expo de Ouf, Carte des Fresques. I translated it to Crazy Exhibition, Map of the Frescoes. Murals, as those of you have read some of these blogs are aware, …
It's nice to have time on your hands. We went food shopping this morning. We didn't have a list, and we didn't go to a supermarket. We started at a small Lebanese Market, went to the butcher, on to a little grocery store we know carries good inexpensive wines and ended up at the chocolatier. All of …
Since 1990 the house at the corner of Bec-de-Leevre, Benoit Maison and Hotel -Dieu in Nimes France has had its walls decorated with repurposed scraps of tile, bike parts, dishes, construction refuse and more that is imbedded encrusted into the walls. We saw a picture of a piece of one of the walls. …
