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France 2011: Day Five
Sunday 2 October 2011 Villepinte to Villesequelande Getting into the rhythm of life on the canal. Today is the first day we’re able to sleep in and everyone welcomes the extra shut-eye. As usual,...
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France 2011: Day Six
Monday 3 October 2011 Villesequelande to Carcassonne Exploring Villesequelande. In the morning, Rick and Jenny bike into Villesequelande to buy wine and a few necessities and Mary, Karen and I...
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France 2011: Day Seven
Tuesday 4 October 2011 Carcassonne to Trèbes If only grocery shopping were always this much fun. We start the day with a number of chores to be done, namely laundry and reprovisioning. Jenny,...
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France 2011: Day Eight
Wednesday 5 October 2011 Trèbes to Puichéric Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We’re up around 7:30 and a group of us head into town to pick up fresh bread and croissants for breakfast. I snap a few more...
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France 2011: Day Nine
Thursday 6 October 2011 Puichéric to Homps Our last full day on the canal. This morning, we fry up the remaining bacon and have another round of the captain’s scrambled eggs, with coffee, juice,...
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France 2011: Day Ten
Friday 7 October 2011 Homps to Paris Strike! It’s time to say “au revoir” to our boat and our brief life on the canal. We wake to more seasonable weather, a breezy and overcast morning; by ten,...
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France 2011: Flight Home
Saturday 8 October 2011 All good things must come to an end. We’re up before the sun (again) and grab breakfast in the hotel before our taxi comes to take us to Charles de Gaulle airport. At such...
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Like Hot Dogs? Go. Eat. Here.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. There’s a new hot dog joint in town that will have Hot Doug’s fans sitting up and taking notice. And probably waiting in equally long lines. The place is...
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A Dangerous Recipe
So, I made the Blueberry Boy Bait recipe recommended to me from the Smitten Kitchen website and wow, oh, wow. I’m not crazy about the name of the recipe, so here on out I’m referring to it as the Evil...
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There’s a Pie Shop in My Neighborhood!
There are two types of people, cake lovers and pie lovers and I am firmly in the pie camp. Have been since I was a kid and tasted my first lemon meringue pie. For me, all cake pales in comparison to a...
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A Dangerous Recipe
So, I made the Blueberry Boy Bait recipe recommended to me from the Smitten Kitchen website and wow, oh, wow. I’m not crazy about the name of the recipe, so here on out I’m referring to it as the Evil...
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