This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 Leaving Paris, we started the next phase our trip — Eastern and Central Europe. This would be the challenging part — trying to understand and sort out the complex, and often violent history of the Balkans. On its surface, it was difficult for me…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 Before meeting friends in Bucharest for the Eastern and Central Europe portions of the trip, we decided to take a little time off in France. We hadn’t been to Paris for nearly 20 years and decided that would be a great place to hole…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 We made our last port call of the cruise in Portofino, a small commune with Liguria. And when I say small, I’m not kidding — the population is about 400 people. As in the case of St. Tropez, this started out as a tiny…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 Today we arrived in St. Tropez. Unlike Marseille and Nice, St. Tropez is actually in Provence. There has been a settlement here since 68 AD when it was known as Heraclea. Until the 1950s, St. Tropez was a quiet little fishing village. That all…
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