Pic For The Day - Best Shave Ever

We were sitting in Madrid, waiting on a plane to Marrakech, when this guy with the best shave ever sat down across from me. For almost an hour I tried to figure out a way to capture his fabulous-ness without him knowing. It was tricky, because he kept staring right at us. Maybe it was due to my stir-crazy kids, who had already been on one plane, and were bored stiff by the long lay-over.

Finally I got lucky:

If Only My Art Teacher Had Looked Like This...

Au Revoir, St Quentin la Poterie: Audio Blog

Our little town of St Quentin la Poterie is opening up, like Provence in Spring will do. It's a small town, and a quiet town. The streets are never full. You don't see more than a few people going from place to place. If you want to catch shops open, like the boucherie or the boulangerie that sells the better brioche, you have to be both a bit psychic and a little lucky.

In the last few weeks, things have been changing. People are everywhere! At lunchtime I see tables out, filled with diners, at restaurants that weren't even open when we arrived. The artisan workshops on every

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The Family Trippers: Audio Blog

Listen to this March 10, 2010 interview we recorded with Ian and Anne Pilbeam en route to York from Edinburgh. They're a family of four who decided to travel for a year, the year before we left. They were still settling back into life near Edinburgh from their July 2008 to June 2009 journey when we first connected with them in November. Here's what they have to say about it all...

Pic(s) For The Day - Giverny

Bob got home on Friday. On Saturday morning he woke up and said "I think we have to go to Giverny." We left on Sunday, and let me tell you, it was worth the 8 hours drive each direction!

For many years Bob and I had a coffee table book called Monet's Table , which we used for both design reference and daydreams. To walk into his house, and into the yellow-on-yellow dining room, to stand in the blue-tiled kitchen with it's copper pots on the walls, with everything looking exactly as we had envisioned it for years, was a moment in time for both of us. 

They won't let you take pictures inside the house, and the from-the-hip shots we tried to get didn't come out, so we can't show you inside. We can show you the Summer Garden, with it's riotous flower beds, and the Winter Garden, with the japanese bridge covered in wisteria, and the famous lily pond.

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