Blue View - Drinking Our Way Through the Champagne Region

Blue View - Drinking Our Way Through the Champagne Region

For as long as I've known her, Marcie's drink of choice has been champagne, and, come to think of it, I'm kind of fond of it myself. When we were fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time and got an invitation to tour Champagne Cuillier, complete with a tasting, how could we pass it up - even if it did mean taking a slight detour…

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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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