The Duncans

Well, a lot has happened in the past two weeks, so we thought we would give you a quick update and share some pics. We had incredibly good weather when we visited Paris with Kathy and Dennis Gregory. We had great food and visited all the major sites: Eiffel Tower, Seine River, Notre Dame, Sainte Chapelle, Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysees, Louvre Museum, Orangerie Museum, Orsay Museum, Pompidou Center, Sacre Coeur, Luxembourg Gardens, and more. We also spent a day with the Gregorys in Monaco where, in their 10 minutes in the casino, they won 250 euros. Monaco is a beautiful mountainous area on the Mediterranean Sea. We visited Monaco Ville, the rock fortress that houses the Palace, the grave of Princess Grace, the Jacques Cousteaux Aquarium, and more. Due to their short visit, we stuck close ... read more

Hope this blog finds you all happy and in good health during these holidays. Our Christmas package arrived early (see pic 1). Yes, Aaron arrived safe and sound, and with luggage on Monday morning. We have really missed friends and family, and so we are very glad to have him here—Christmas would have been very empty without him. We head to Lyon on Friday and depart for Barcelona on Saturday and return to Marseille on Tuesday. Hope you enjoy some of our Christmas pictures of Marseille. To all, we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Garry, Kathy and Aaron ... read more

Well, it is blogger time. Our latest pioneering visitor who has managed to survive Marseille for the past week is our close friend Janet Johnson, who also serves as Kathy’s walking partner when in Lincoln and while here in Marseille. Janet and Kathy have been making walking sorties each day in Marseille—while Garry labors away at the lab. Garry picks up the baguette from the patisserie on his way home, and Kathy and Janet have the wine and cheese ready upon his arrival. Janet and Kathy have been cooking up some fine home-cooked meals. Last weekend we headed to Cassis, one of our favorite seaside places. This time we took a boat out to view 5 of the nearby calanques, fiord-like inlets lined by white cliffs. Some of the cliffs are very steep and are peppered ... read more

Cassee and Bony Go to China (while Garry and Alan stay home) I am back from China. I and another faculty person from Lincoln and a former student were invited to speak at an International Nursing Conference in Beijing. We had a great experience. The conference people there took great care of us. We were given own translator, a young nurse who spoke excellent English, and she stayed with us from 7 AM to 9 PM every day. They even made the translators stay at the hotel, in case we needed something. We needed a translator as most of the nurses and administrators speak very limited English. We had trouble pronouncing their names but so did they saying our names. I was "Cass-ee" for the trip and Bunny was "Bony". We stayed in a 5 star ... read more

Cassis We went to this great seaside village last Sat (9/27) and we shall return! It was so very pretty. We wanted to take the town's tour train but ran out to time. The train takes you out to the calanques (limestone-like fiords), one of the many reasons we want to go back. There are also boat trips to that area, plus several walking tours out of town, winery tours, and a nice town square. Garry will include pictures, but really, you can't see the charm. The town’s name is Cassis and it’s just how you would picture a French coastal village. We even walked by a couple vineyards on the way into and out of town. We did walk a lot, maybe 2 mi just from the train station into town and 2 mi back ... read more