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The last time I was in France was some 20 years ago – I was a younger man and was there with Rick and Sarah and their daughters Shana and Mimi. We landed in Paris and after a couple of days we headed south-east towards the Italian border. Our destination was Verona because we couldn’t find accommodations in Venice, so we just visited.

That long-ago trip had many memorables:
– in Paris, for lunch, the girls had horse-meat hamburgers
– for dinner, that same day, I had tripe at Au Pied du Cochon
– Mimi and I went out and got pastries for breakfast
– Jim Morrison’s grave at Père Lachaise was littered with weed-roaches
– the top of Gertrude Stein’s grave-marker was covered with small stones

This time, eight of us are traveling – Rose and Derrick, Mary and Dom, Rick and Sarah, Frank and I. We’ll be in Paris for two-and-a-half days and then we’re going to Burgundy for a seven-day canal-barge cruise.

Both the featured image and the above picture are from the Internet.
The flag in the Arc de Triomphe has always been one of my favorite symbols of France.
The man in the vineyard points to Burgundy and the wines we’ll be savoring while being spoiled cruising the Canal de Bourgogne.