Off to Romenay
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 market day…
Le Moulin de Lhomont, la vie en compagne
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 to meet the neighbors, pictured, […]
Arivee en France
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 long walks and steep staircases […]
Closing out a very hard week
A ‘chick flick’ (Linda’s description, not mine) shows (L to R) Linda (a lay eucharistic minister), the Rev. Frannie Hall-Kieschnick and the Rev. Beth Foote presiding at Sunday’s 10:30 service at Trinity. The sermon, which beautifully helped us walk through the stages of lamentation over rector Mike Spillane’s death, was delivered by Stanford’s Rev. […]
Hard day, good news
Today we attended the first memorial service for Mile Spillane, which was hard, despite his valiant widow Julie’s charm and gracious spirit. Earlier in the day I’d had a MRI and consult with my neuro-oncologists at UCSF - the news was good - which hadn’t been the case for Mike in weeks previous. I still […]
Return to Arastradero, spring 2008
We walked for a bit over an hour today, in Palo Alto’s Arastradero Preserve, long a favorite jogging venue for Linda and I (and the late, much missed Cassie, the Australian Shepherd).
Arastradero is particularly delightful in the spring, and I was very happy to be walking its trails again. Linda jogged her 5+ mile loop […]
A segue from shop to walk
We tacked our daily walk onto a little shopping expedition to the Stanford Shopping Center where the ’safety officers’ have taken to riding around on Segways. Our loot: a fry-pan splatter shield from Williams-Sonoma, The iPhone Missing Manual from the Apple Store and 2 Nike shirts (on sale)…
A day in the city
Our day started with the usual Wednesday Caltrain/Muni journey to UCSF: there was a bit of added interest when the N Judah streetcar was halted for 15 minutes near the Bay Bridge and we glimpsed a group of pro-Tibet would-be torch watchers, seen above. We were late for our 90-minute physical rehab session, but very […]
Back from Milwaukee
The Milwaukee trip was just great. I knew things were going to go well when we walked down to the hotel bar night 1 only to discover Giants announcers Mike Krukow and Dave Fleming. Linda, decked out in Giants orange said hi, and Mike jumped up, asked us if we had tickets and engaged us […]
Projects to think about on the road
Linda and I are off (at 4:30 AM) to Milwaukee, of all places, tomorrow. Long story, but the Giants are playing the Brewers, I have an old college buddy there and a good friend from Chicago is coming up. I plan to use the travel time to think through a couple of very important projects.
One […]