http://www.gulker.com Words and pictures from Silicon Valley Sun, 11 May 2008 15:45:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Linda has become quite the expert chauffeur (shown driving earlier this week), as evidenced this morning when we rose early to make the 90-minute journey to celebrate Pentecost with the Taizé Freres, an ecumenical order of monks who maintain a faith community, including a giant church, in the tiny village ... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/11/pentecost-at-taize/ While Linda made her way cross country on a local randonee, I headed out, with my more limited range, first to the crossroads with adjacent new-looking country house that mark the actual center of Lhomont and then back up the gentle hill that appoaches the Moulin from Montpont-en-Bresse. The day ... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/10/beau-temps-a-lhomont/ It's high spring in the Burgundy/Jura region, and we see many newly-planted potagers, or kitchen gardens tucked into various spaces - as seen here in the village of Pont de Vaux where we lunched and Linda shopped for granddaughter Grace. Not a lot of shops open this weekend of Armistice ... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/09/potager-at-pont-de-vaux/ The village of Cuisery was the goal of this morning's foray into the French countryside, both for lunch at one of its recommended restaurants "L'Atmosphere" and a walk through its "Village du Livres," actually a street where nearly every shop is a bookseller. One wonders about the viability of print businesses ... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/08/cuisery/ Oui, c'est moi enjoying the patio at Seize Quartiers, a very nice restaurant in the hilltop village of Chateau Chalon. Linda offers more details about today's day trip. Somebody's got to do it... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/07/tough-life/ I am a bit under the weather today, so we've taken the opportunity to enjoy our rented house and the countryside. Linda finished up some work she brought along, and I've been reading and took a short walk. Wired Magazine has an article about Piotr Wozniak, creator of the program Super ... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/06/quiet-day-at-lhomont/ Louhans has the biggest market day hereabouts, every Monday. Nearly every shop in the surrounding towns closes Monday, presumably so everyone can do their weekly shopping in Louhans. On our host's advice, we rose early and arrived at the market by 8, and watched a lively trade in everything from llamas ... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/05/market-day-in-louhan/ We headed out from the Moulin de Lhomont  yesterday to lunch at the Lyon d'Or in Romenay. Sitting on the restaurant's terrace we were treated to small slices of village life - boys playing soccer, a mother rounding up her wayward children, a couple walking. Today we're off to Louhan for ... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/05/off-to-romenay/ We awoke late this morning, after yesterday's marathon travels, and arrived at the boulanger in Montpont after they'd sold out of croissants: we made do with a loaf of the local pain Montponnais which went nicely with yogurt, oranges and good French coffee, brewed in a press. We took some time ... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/04/le-moulin-de-lhomont-la-vie-en-compagne/ The view was great and the dinner simple at Moulin de l'Homont this evening: bread, fruit, cheese and some local bourgogne. This capped a long, long day making our way from San Francisco to Frankfurt, then Lyon by air and finally by car to Montpont en Bresse. There were many ... http://www.gulker.com/wp/2008/05/03/arivee-en-france/