http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/The-Duncans/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from The Duncans en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:53:19 +0000 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:53:19 +0000 Bonjour from MarseilleWell we are nearing the end of our grand journey. We have had three couples come visit since our last blog. In April Garryrsquos niece Melissa and her husband Jeremy Padbury came to visit us from England. Jeremy is in the Air Force and is currently stationed in England. While the weather was less than perfect it did not stop us from some sightseeing. Melissa and Je http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-399688.html While some did others of you did not get to see the pictures from the last blog. So here goes again.Happy Easter from MarseilleSince our last blog we had a wonderful visit although the weather was not always wonderful with Nancy and Lou Waltman. In spite of the lessthanperfect weather we had a great time together mostly spent walking lots and lots of it visiting the sites and shoppi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-389900.html 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 ChampsElysees Louvre Museum Orangerie Museum Orsay Museum Pompidou Cen http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-384955.html There is nothing like being with family during the holidays. Our time in France has made us aware of this more than ever. Before leaving for Spain we took Aaron to the calanques see pic and to the nearby islands see pic to catch some views. On Friday December 26 we took the highspeed train to Lyon France where we spent the afternoon and evening seeing some of the sights of Lyon includ http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-359700.html 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 heremdashChristmas would have been very empty without him. We head to Lyon on Friday and depart for Barcelona on Saturday http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-357046.html Listen upmdashare you paying attention We have just two words for you Cinque Terra. If you like rugged beautiful seacoast and you want to go back several hundred years in time then you MUST include the Cinque Terra five lands on your list for visiting Italy. The Cinque Terra is comprised of five little Italian coastal villages on the northwestern Mediterranean coast. We Janet Johns http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-349685.html 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 Kathyrsquos walking partner when in Lincoln and while here in Marseille. Janet and Kathy have been making walking sorties each day in Marseillemdashwhile Garry labors away at the lab. Garry picks up the baguette from the patisseri http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-346654.html Finally someone had the courage to come visit us. Kathyrsquos sister Diane and her husband Darrell have spent the past four days with us visiting Marseille Avignon Cassis and Nicemdashone day in each city getting the flavor of southern Francemdashand then back to Marseille each evening. We joined them for their oneday visit to Nice which was a 2.5hour train ride each way. It wa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-338958.html Cassee and Bony Go to China while Garry and Alan stay homeI 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-336064.html Well this week Garry will be acting as chief blogger since Kathy is off having a ldquowonderful timerdquo in Beijing China where she is to give an invited talk. Her plane left Marseille 50 minutes late which would have given her exactly 5 minutes in Munich to get to her plane for Beijing but that flight was also delayed. So I am happy to report that she and her luggage arrived safely. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-333484.html CassisWe went to this great seaside village last Sat 927 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 limestonelike 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. Gar http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-330178.html Week 23Boat trip Last Sunday September 14 we took a boatship ride out to Les Iles du Frioul islands not far from Marseille. Although a bit windy it was otherwise a beautiful day. One of the islands is the Ile drsquoIf which is the location of the prison in Alexandre Dumasrsquo book The Count of Monte Cristo. We landed on and hiked the big island Ile de Ratonneau which is the is http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Lincoln/blog-326002.html Friday September 12 2008 Greetings from Marseille. We hope all is going well back in the good olrsquo U.S. of A. It is been an eventful week. The weather has generally very nice. We keep the windows open at night and much of the day. There are no screens on the windows because there are virtually no bugs We are bewildered by this. You biologistsmdashdo you have any explanation W http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-322822.html We arrived on Weds 93 and have now 5 days of experience. The apt is a little less than we hoped but OKhigh ceilings clean just old and not a lot of comfortable places to sit. It has lots of room. It did not come with a coffee pot. We bought one right away So far the weather has been either hot and humid and they don't air condition anything here not even banks stores etc. or hot but bre http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Provence-Alpes-C-te-d-Azur/Marseille/blog-320967.html Copy and paste this address onto the internet and you can see the rental info and pictures of where we are living. I'm sure it is so much nicer that this.httpsabbaticalhomes.comOfferedDetails.aspxid28833iHomeRentalHouseForRentMarseilleFrance http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/blog-316079.html