I ran into traffic.  It was Sunday evening and everyone was heading home from the mountains to escape the blistering heat in the valleys, where it was in the high 90s. […]

I was now in the department of Haute Savoie, also known as upper Savoy. The House of Savoy, made up of lower and upper Savoy, was the longest surviving royal house in […]

My apologies for the previous version of this post.  I was using an AZERTY (French) keyboard which is distinctly different from the QWERTY keyboard that I’m used to.  For those […]