Oh, the burdens of living in an area that’s been inhabited since the Neolithic. All the good citizens of Saintes, a small city near the Atlantic coast of France, dreamed of was a nice golf course. A suitable site was … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Mediterrean Travel
Consider your kitchen or bathroom. Does it have a tap? We take running hot and cold water for granted. I have always had it, although I have lived in places where the water that came out of that tap wasn’t … Continue reading
The reason Other Architecture is so fascinating, I realize, is because all my life I’ve lived in American houses. I know how those are put together and why. If you go somewhere else, it’s not the same at all. Why … Continue reading
There are some old, old roads in the world. The Romans believed that the Via Domitia was the path of Heracles’ adventures in the Greek legends.This did not keep them from paving it so that it could unite their empire … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough Instead of going to Helsinki to the World SF Convention this year we decided to go to France. I am writing some novels which take place to some extent there, and my husband has never been. … Continue reading
This series started on Oct. 15 and will continue every other Saturday. I’m taking a trip back in time to my 4-month backpacking rambles around Greece in the early 1980s, which planted the seed for my recent novel The … Continue reading