Category: France trips
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Stopping for lunch while bicycling along a canal in France; September 30 – October 6, 2025
Over eight days my friend Lyman Labry and I continued a bike ride we had started the day before in southwest France. Me, of course, I was looking for French meals. The best seemed to be towards the end. French restaurants in small towns are not always easy to find. We were in Lyman’s mother’s…
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“My Dinner with Lyman” in small town France, September 30, 2025
Even at home, meals are important events in my day; sometimes the most important thing. Lyman and I faced an evening meal conundrum on the first night of our eight day bicycle tour of southwest France. I had big expectations. The French, they say, try to make every lunch, dinner or even breakfast as special…
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Cycle touring Provence; November 1 – 8, 2023
Let’s go for a bike ride in France the first week of November! What would the weather be like? After landing Lyman and I met up at a hotel in central Paris. We had each brought a folding Bike Friday in a hard shell case on the airplane from America, and we had arranged to…
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Alsace-Lorraine; cycling from Germany into France; July 21 – Aug 2, 2022
There is a guy, Tom Goode, who like me, is from Virginia Beach. He is a retired teacher and a ZZ Top fan. He has been my friend for sixty-three of our sixty-seven years. We have seen each other only intermittently in recent years but have stayed in touch. Tom has lived in the western…
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