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Auvers-sur-Oise and the End of the Road for Vincent Van Gogh

May 20, 2022 by Hugh Nelson 10 Comments

Mountains at Saint Rémy

Planning the trip to Auvers-sur-Oise Earlier this week Brenda and I made a day trip to Auvers-sur-Oise, the burial site of Vincent Van Gogh. It was our first trip on a train outside of Paris in a couple years, and in the interim, the French national train network SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer […]

Filed Under: Sight Seeing, Travel Outside Paris Tagged With: auvers-sur-oise, sncf-connect, van gogh

Some thoughts from France on Covid Vaccination Progress

August 6, 2021 by Hugh Nelson 16 Comments

QR code icon for the French anti covid app

Maybe because I’m 70 years old, I jumped at the first chance I had to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. Even better, I received the version from Johnson and Johnson, not only a trusted brand for floor wax (actually that’s SC Johnson – not the same), but also a vaccine that needed only one shot. I […]

Filed Under: Dining, Living, Travel Outside Paris

Technical Difficulties in Paris in 2020

January 4, 2021 by Hugh Nelson 26 Comments

Hugh and Brenda at the flower market on Ile de la Cité

Remember when the TV would occasionally show a screen saying that they were having technical difficulties? We had a few technical difficulties in Paris in 2020. Looking back, I have plenty of things to be thankful for. I’m not among those who suffered because of health problems or financial loss. The regulatory regime was a […]

Filed Under: Living, Travel Outside Paris

“The Third Man” needed help from Peoria

April 13, 2020 by Hugh Nelson 10 Comments

The Third Man

With current restrictions in Paris on how and why we can leave our apartment, we’ve had to make adjustments in shopping routines, exercise routines, and certainly social routines. For instance, a couple times each week, my wife and I watch a movie together, sort of a date night for people in lockdown. Rather than choosing […]

Filed Under: History, Living, Travel Outside Paris

Bonne année 2020!

January 1, 2020 by Hugh Nelson 28 Comments

2019 was our seventh year in France, the last year of the decade, our 30th wedding anniversary, each of our 50th high school reunions, the 50th anniversary of my swearing in at the Naval Academy, the 30th anniversary of my taking command of USS Buffalo (SSN-715), the 50th anniversary of Woodstock and the moon landing, […]

Filed Under: Living, Sight Seeing, Travel Outside Paris

A Song of Egypt

March 9, 2019 by Hugh Nelson 9 Comments

On the Nile river proceeding south from Luxor

Every morning at our hotel by the Red Sea the guy making eggs would hum a little song. It was a happy song, though I had never heard the tune. It was always the same. He was always happy, cooking eggs, humming a song of Egypt. I would never have chosen to travel to Egypt […]

Filed Under: History, Sight Seeing, Travel Outside Paris Tagged With: art

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