Bonjour everyone, I finally am introduced to this travel blog. As you may have read, Kate has been very (tres) busy fine-tuning the details of our bookings, finances and correspondence. By-in-large, my preparations have taken a different focus. Enchanted with the Paris of the Fin De Siecle, the art, philosophy and pleasures of romantic France I fully intend to absorb as much of it as possible. Call it a fancy, I suppose it is. But as we're floating around the hall of mirrors in the Palace of Versaille, I don't want to catch sight of myself in a red polar-fleece hiking jacket and spoil my daydreaming fantasy. Oh no. It's going to be chic dresses and groomed hair, for me. Possibly even on a mountain bike. (Not for Kate though... more the shirt-and pants combo, you
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