A World Away...

My intentions when creating this blog was to provide my friends and family a way to follow my 6 week tour in France and Italy this fall. Well, the technical issues didn't work out as I had thought. When we arrived in the medieval town of Durfort, France, my first week's stay, there was no internet availablity. The following weekend we found an internet cafe in nearby Revel. I finally eeked out an email using a French keyboard (boy, it that confusing) and there was no way to download photos--a problem that exists when you don't have your own laptop.

Everyone had said, "the internet cafes are everywhere in Europe". Not necessarily so! It was a case of feast or famine. Not to mention I paid from $5 to $16 per hour for internet services. So my blog intentions were not fufilled.

Needless to say, my trip was fabulous and full of insights and adventures. Most were wonderful. One day from you-know-where, but I survived! I will break my trip up into small chunks and share them one at a time. I took probably 2,000 photos with my Nikon D-70 so I'll include a few choice shots of the local landscape.

A well used phrase says it all...wish you were there!!!