Last autumn's trip to Paris got us back to cycling. With a very inexpensive 'Velib' pass for the week we were there we enjoyed the freedom of cycling around the city, going where you want, when you want and brought back the feeling of complete liberation on a bike. So this spring we dug out our bikes, gave them a tune-up and we were off cycling - ( Read more... )

Shook me all night long. I Feel the Earth Move... And that's only a few of the songs a local radion station has been playing in the aftermath of a 5.5 on the richter scale earthquake in our area this afternoon. It had to be the wildest one I've ever experienced in my lifetime and lasted at least 10 full seconds.

I had just come back from lunch and  ( Read more... )

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