Blue View - Baby's Got New Shoes

Blue View - Baby's Got New Shoes

"Baby needs new shoes" - a phrase said aloud when one is hoping for good luck in a game of chance, especially before a dice roll... The Free Dictionary. Well I can't speak for baby, but Marcie and I certainly do need new shoes. After a mere 843.7 miles, our walking shoes are totally worn out…

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France's heatwave has broken... and we're back

 France's heatwave has broken... and we're back

For those of you who might not have noticed, we took a brief hiatus from our blog. It's not that we've lost interest and it's certainly not because we couldn't find anything to write about (that never stopped us before). It's because of the darn heat. France has been suffering through a record setting heatwave. But, at last, the heatwave has broken, temps are now in the 70's-80's, and we're back in the groove…

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Blue View - Italy's Coffee Culture

 Blue View - Italy's Coffee Culture

No restaurant or bar in Italy would stay in business long without a large, elaborate, beautiful coffee machine. A bar here might devote 1-2 feet of bar space to the beer taps, but you can be sure they will have a coffee maker that takes up 5-6 feet. We Americans may love our coffee, but the Italians have made it an art form…

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