Mulberry Harbour

October 23, 2015

To be able to off-load the supplies and troops needed to advance the beach head a deep water harbor was needed but all those were in German hands.  The British developed a portable harbor system that was towed across the Channel . By 9 June, just 3 days after D-Day, two harbours codenamed Mulberry “A” […]

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Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris

October 22, 2015

Construction started in 1160 and was completed nearly 200 years later. Unlike the Lourve, the line was 15 minutes. No matter what your religious beliefs might be, one can not enter this House of God without feelings of worship and praise of God.

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Lourve

October 22, 2015

Once the home to French monarchs Louis XIV left it as a place to house art as he moved to Versailles.  The ceilings are art in themselves.  500+ paintings and hundreds of sculptures. I’ll let the photos do the talking.

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Paris

October 22, 2015

Until I got the great deal from Skyscanner.com, Paris was never on my bucket list. After the usual trans-Atlantic hassles I staggered into my Hipotel. Although bare-bones, I found a cheap, clean and totally acceptable room via the garden. The metro here is pretty good. Not London good but not bad and not expensive.  $2.00 […]

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Time to resume the previous wander

October 20, 2015

Having now spent 45 days living in my father’s basement (I feel like such a millennial) I now have a real sense of his situation.  I had been staying in an in-law apartment in a brother’s house in the next town and driving to Dad’s to sit with him for a few hours everyday.  We […]

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July 14, 2015

July 17, 2015

E. Mary Geach Blackwell Sept 3 1949 This will be short.  Dad was 92 on July 14 but we will not remember that so much as the death of my mum that day sort of took precident.  After fighting her illness for 2 1/2 years (the doctors gave her 6 months) she finally succumbed.  Three […]

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Old in Connecticut

June 18, 2015

I sold my house last March and moved to my brother’s house in Vernon CT where he and his wife have an in-law apartment that my folks stayed fior a while, to add my time to the family workload.  Since the load seemed manigable at the time but would obviously get harder in the future, […]

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Upon return

June 2, 2015

In my last blog I told you that my perigination of the UK was cut short due parental issues back here in the States. It was like this, 3 years ago my now 92 year old Dad, Eugene, seen in the opening page, took a digger down the alter steps at the family church, St. […]

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Going Back to the States

May 31, 2015

Due to sudden parental health issues I feel as though I am more needed back in the States and so after 40 days of wandering the UK, that is where I am headed. Taxi picked me up 8 AM GMT from Balloch to Glasgow airport.  9:30 Flight to Gatwick in London.  2 hour bus to […]

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Hill House – Helensburgh

May 30, 2015

My muse has a good eye for style and was as delighted as I with what we found.  Knowing that Mackintosh like to build with the brown sandstone of Scotland and his interest in towers we were gobsmacked by what we found after a convoluted but pleasant ride. We were shocked because this is the […]

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