what time is it? Are your players aware of the start of the Major League baseball season? Is there an equivalent French soccer/sports team to the Cubs, who seem like they will be terrible once again?
Rouen Beautiful City Have just booked to go back to Rouen in July. Am staying about 10 mins from Rouen in a village called Bosgouet. Australian woman owns a chateau there and runs culinary vacations....hands on cooking classes with guest chefs. www.thefrenchtable.com.au I have been to Rouen before so am very excited as it is a simply gorgeous city! Musee de Beau Arts is supposed to be the best provincial museum in France. Any way cannot wait to return to Rouen and uncover more of her treasures! Loved your pics!
Welcome back Hi Will,
just read your blog. nice to see that your doing well again in france. hope we will see us in somewhere in germany when you drive through to lithuania. wish you a good time and further impressions of europe.
cya Daniel
thanks Pop, Interesting. I love that I am playing baseball in the region where you spent most of your time during the war. Your stories are fascinating. I imagine the landscape was quite different at that point here in Normandy.
love,
Will
what we wear without knowing it Margot, That is really interesting. What a loaded t shirt in terms of messages. Baseball shirt in a place that does not play baseball. Interesting. It makes me think of my first baseball practice in Kaunas, Lithuania, where one of the other players showed up wearing a t shirt that said 'Tultex' on it. Tultex is the company started by my grandfather over 50 years ago, a knitting and sweatshirt company that went out of business almost 10 years ago. I was obviously shocked to find someone wearing one of their shirts in Lithuania(when in the US I rarely see them at all anymore).
:)
Baseball flag This morning I was tutoring a high shcool girl from West Africa. SHe was choosing which verb to use in front of different sports: do, go or play. We tripled the number of sports mentioned in the book. I needed to explain cursorily how baseball is played and that it is the so-called national sport of the US. I give info about sport different sports I theoretically play and she guesses the sport. Then we trade roles. After all that I see on her T shirt brown and red bats as stripes and little baseballs as stars in the form of the US flag. She liked the shirt but didn't know what it was about.
greeting people in the morning Hi Will!
So fun to read your blog again! Ask Pop about Gerard when he first came to the U.S. and went to work! Great story!
Also, I love the analogy of 'watching paint dry'! Thanks for your wonderful writing!
mime i have a pic of a mime in strassbourg france... in front of the cathedral ...which was taken in 1990 when we were there.he looks just like your mime in frankfurt.do you have any more pics of your mime?
nice pics hi will,
just had a look at your blob. you took some nice shots from the mountains in austria.
by the way got a car-sharing thing for you on friday to frankfurt. try to call you in a bit.
cya
daniel
yes yes you can a few years ago a very scary angry policeman in san francisco actually threatened to arrest me for jaywalking. it can definately happen.
Liepaja and Karosta are great!!! Did u see the fantastic seaside both in Karosta and in Liepaja center? White soft sand beach in the center, and fortresses in Karosta blasted up and particularly fallen into the sea... breakwater where you can go even by car on it... Underground tunnels, that used to be top secret... A prison for tourists in Karosta... The Arena... Oh,, so many wonderful things!!
Whiz Dear Will,
It's fun to follow you whizzing through your travels. Has travelling about Europe given you a new way of looking at home? I especially liked seeing the photo of you and Hannah together.
May the wind be always at your back!
how was lithuania? Great to hear another lithuanian success story (of sorts). I am also glad the trucker stopped. Where were you travelling in lithuania? Where are you all from? Who are you?? I am glad you read my blog. :)
Another act of kindness in Lithuania We were travelling through North Western Lithuania with our trusty Landies when one of them lost a wheel - flew right off (probably some undetected rust). Thankfully the car came to a stop and we were left to our own devices when out of nowhere came along a huge truck (I think it was with Russian plates, my wife thinks it was Lithuanian but we don't know which one was the driver) and the driver came out took a serious look at the car, brought his heavy duty jack out and started working on it. "No problem" apparently is a phrase that is understood worldwide. Within twenty minutes we were on our way, still too shocked even to notice that we haven't taken his name, number or anything to thank him except a hushed "thank you so much". So for this wonderful truck driver - THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH.
cheers to them reading this entry reminded me of the living saints i met during my travels through italy. in casale monferato, i met antonio, a bus driver with whom i caught a ride into the city one day. when i asked about return trips, he replied that there were none but that he would take me himself. i thought he would make the extra trip in his bus, but instead he came to pick me up in his own car. then, in ferrarra, i injured my back so badly that i couldn't walk or sit straight. i don't remember how i found her or she found me, but a healer named anna took me into her house, fed me, and massaged me with her miraculous hands. neither antonio nor anna asked for anything in return.
the most romantic thing really a nice story..after reading,feel warm.i think the old couple not only love each other, but also understand each other,and thats the most romantic thing in the world..
Last summer I was playing baseball in Lithuania, coaching in Moscow, hitching through Bavaria, and working construction in the South of France. Who knows what this summer will bring.
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what time is it?
Are your players aware of the start of the Major League baseball season? Is there an equivalent French soccer/sports team to the Cubs, who seem like they will be terrible once again?