a place I must visit one spring day… Menton, France

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

 (photo thanks to Flickr’s Pi productions)
If you are reading this blog and you’ve ever attended the Menton Lemon Festival in Menton, France, please reply and tell us a detail or two! (en francais ou en anglais).  I hope to see it someday.  The photo above shows a sculpture created from CITRUS fruit!!  I love it! 
http://www.feteducitron.com/menton-french-riviera-lemon-festival-uk.html
http://www.menton.com/uk/lemons/index.htm
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Vacation Dreams… USA/Canada

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

British Columbia? Vancouver? Alaska? Oregon Coast? Portland/Seattle? Mesa Verde? Bryce/Zion Canyons? Dakota Badlands? Which would you choose? and why? or why not? What places would top your list?
I so often wish that we could spare/find/make the time and money to take an extended travel trip across the USA — there’s so much to see [...]

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