ROBERT TOWNSEND
My wife, Patrice, and I live in France.
Plitvice Lakes, Croatia
Gribovac, Plitvice Lakes, and a novel During the week 18-24 October 2023 Patrice and I visited Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes region to 1). take a one-week vacation and 2) to ‘ground...
The Robert Olen Butler with Clara Herrera Visit Semur-en-Auxios
Bernard Loiseau restaurant, Saulieu, France and Clara Robert Olen, long-time buddy, and his wife, Clara Herrera, visited Patrice and me in France ( 15-22 August 2023). They first spent a...
War in Ukraine observed from United Kingdom
Patrice and I are spending Christmas with Michelle and Nigel in Horsmonden, UK. We had met them a week ago in Calais to drive to Bruges, Belgium, for the Christmas...
Collegiale de Notre Dame
Semur-en-Auxios, France The weather in France has turned cold, between 30-34F. I hear guffaws all the way from Northern Wisconsin. A blizzard sweeps across the northern plains and into the...
Writing in France
My part of Burgundy (Côte-d'Or) is a landscape of ‘manicured’ rolling hills. The French farmers are meticulous, the crop rows straight ( three harvests a season), the hillsides dotted with...
The war in Ukraine as observed from Marseille
On 6 October, I met my daughter Marci, and grandson, Joshua, in Marseille. I simply have not the words to describe how happy I was. Perhaps this photo of my ‘doofus’...
Kippenheim
20 September (2022), Rachel Lavin (friend) and Francine Pease (sister), Patrice and I visited Freiburg im Breisgau with a side trip to Patrice's family (father’s side) to their pre-WWII home...
Bonne année
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