Month: July 2019

We came to Brittany from Sicily for some very specific reasons including the intense summer heat of Palermo and also because of my recently acquired Italian driving license. After a year of residency in Italy it is required that you have an Italian or EU license. The New York license is no longer recognized. The…

Keto, lets discuss I have some thoughts about the keto diet based on my multi month experience trying out this method of weight loss. I don’t want to get into the positive or negative health benefits of this type of diet. Obviously if you are diabetic there are good reasons to follow it but if…

….Continued from the previous post. After leaving the hog-shit-digesting bacteria sales program, I started work at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) that same day. They had a new field study that had started the day before and they were understaffed. The experiment, the study, was designed to determine if a stream in the Town…

…..Continued from the previous post The drive from Washington DC to Houston was not all done in one leg. I did stop for the night in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I spent a night there. I had been driving all day, including driving through a freak blizzard in Virginia during early October. In my early ‘70s Chevy…

Fried Oysters Backstory to the fried oysters I presented on the food page. As a late-stage teenager, I (we) discovered Howard Johnsons in Newburgh. When we, my friends and I achieved the evolutionary state of being able to drive, Howard Johnsons was a place to go to to cure the munchies. Early 1970’s Orange County…

Gourmet is one of those words that over the years has not only lost its meaning, its meaning has actually started to reverse. Started to mean the opposite of its original intended meaning. As a noun it is a person of good, discerning taste. As an other noun, it is the food and drink that…

Last night we were entertained. The house we are renting here in Saint Pierre Quiberon is a 4 story building with a terrace on the top floor. Given that most other homes in the immediate area are only three levels (except for one apartment building) the terrace has a mostly unobstructed view towards the east…

A random worker walking through the brambles for some unknown reason found a wooden statue of some unknown character. Presenting that statue to his blind daughter caused a miracle that restored her vision. This “happened” in 808 and is one of the possible reasons that a chapel was built in Josselin. The chapel became a…

I did not particularly like wine when I was growing up. My parents had wine in the house and it was not a restricted item for me as it is in most american households. But I did not crave it. It was just there, available but not desired. When I matured a bit and went…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op7IgFbT8l0 It’s getting close to the time that we will be leaving Brittany after 10 months since we first arrived. We had initially decided to stay a year or even two and we would have if it was not for the house that we are living in. The location could not be better being about…