On New Year's Eve day, we decided that it would be a good idea to go to the Horse for a giraffe. It was late afternoon, and we were just...

Cruising out of Paris, we find ourselves back in the slow lane. We have been floating along on the Marne, visiting Champagne villages and...

Three days before Christmas It was 10:30 when we hopped on Vélib bikes at the Bastille, and rode down rue St. Antoine. We were bundled up...

Eight years ago, when we bought our barge, we moved into a village that we never knew existed until after we had been living there for...

In Paris, last fall was summer, winter was fall, and spring was winter. April announced itself with rain and cold winds, and after a two...

Back in the last century, from the comfort of our San Francisco home, we made plans for our new adventure as barge owners in France. We...

Living in a foreign country is a humbling experience. Sometimes trying to integrate into French society make us feel like teenagers who...

We waved to friends as we left the small port in Montchanin, it was 8am and we were on our way again after a pleasant week long stopover....

Minutes and hours creep by, and days drag along, making weeks feel like months. Even our weekends go on and on and on. The pages of our...

Winter was cold this year, and for a couple of weeks, the water froze around our boat, making ghost-like noises in the middle of the...

This is the Marco, the barge that we hope to turn into our new home. After looking at many barges in France, Belgium, and Holland, we...

Julia Child said that eating is France's national sport, and we feel like major league players when we visit our favorite country...

Spring has sprung, and while our barge is undergoing a make-over, we have time to enjoy the warm weather by exploring our neighborhood....

Roanne is a pleasant little town, and we feel quite at home here. It is not Paris, where we originally wanted to spend our winters, but...

If you read Toby's last page, you know that he went to Lyon for knee surgery in January and that he has been confined to the house since...

Photos from our winter vacation in Los Angeles and San Francisco Back in Roanne

The good news is that we are not going to sink. The bad news is that we caught on fire. We have just spent a couple of busy weeks in dry...

February flew by faster than Jim Shea at the Winter Olympics. Still, we managed to get a lot done, checking off item after item on our...

Spring in Roanne is acting just like the stock market. It just can't seem to get started. Every bright, sunny morning, all of the cafés...