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Return to Montpellier

October 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Travel

Hard to believe, but it’s been 37 years since I enrolled in the foreign student program at the Paul Valery University in Montpellier, France. It was one of the best years of my life. Unlike the United States, where you sign a lifetime mortgage for a higher education, tuition in France even for a foreigner […]

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Hiking to the Abbey

October 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Travel

 Our destination was the Benedictine abbey at St. Martin-du-Canigou, about an hour from Perpignan in the Pyrenees, but a curious thing happened when we stopped in the nearby town of Vernet les Bains to try and mail some post cards. The post office was closed, naturally. But we literally walked into an old friend of Bob’s, […]

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Postcard from Collioure

October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Travel

Here’s another excuse to eat and drink: Collioure, a small seaside town just this side of France’s border with Spain, a center for making a local fortified wine known as Banyuls as well as for artists and packing anchovies. I may have found my perfect meal here: fresh anchovies, fried calamari, Catalonian dried ham, tomato […]

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