Living in Tuscany

Posted by Joe Benning

We are finally back after spending most of September in Tuscany, Italy. We had actually planned to get to Florence from Aix-en-Provence by train but a rock slide in the Alps covered the train tracks leading from France to Italy, so that plan got shelved. In the end we managed to fly to Florence from Marseilles, so everything worked out in the end. 

There were lots of photo taking opportunities, so I took more than a few. Here (below) is a link to a web page that has some of them.

https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/4ni6Y0sMBRAJQ

Joe

Living in Provence

Posted by Joe Benning

We recently spent 3 weeks living in Provence in a trip sponsored by the Smithsonian. Among other things we took a French language immersion course, a cuisine course and a course in French art and culture.

Marseille, France–August 27, 2023. A photo of Palais Longchamp celebrating the arrival of clean water in Marseille

After 3 weeksm=, we headed off to Florence, Italy. For more photos from. Provence, please follow the link below.

      https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/EDtNGqMibe4Tc

Joe