Our trip to Prague was planned and we were invited by our friend Noah, Director of Global Studies at Arizona State University. We met Noah, Shira, Lindsay, and Manual in our hotel lobby at 6:30, and went for dinner at Alma, then enjoyed on a beautiful nighttime walk through the Old City and across the Charles Bridge. It was beautiful!
We celebrated in Father’s Day over lunch at O Badiu restaurant in Lectoure on Sunday, then drove to Toulouse to spend the night. All four children called Papa that evening, the best gift!
We were up by 4 on Monday morning to go to the airport for our 6:40 flight. There was a short stop in Brussels and we arrived in Prague by 11:30. We dropped our bags at the hotel and walked to U Kroka for lunch. Then we walked through the beautiful hilltop park, Royal Acropolis, to Saints Peter and Paul Basilica, with its interior entirely covered with frescoes. The park also had beautiful views of the city of Prague and the Vitava River.
I am 69 years old today! How time flies! How precious life is! I have so much to be grateful for…
1. My husband of 45 years still loves me and we have fun together every day!
2. Our 4 children and 8 grandchildren! Our Boys and Girls Club kids!
3. Wonderful friends!
4. A life full of adventure - spending half of each year in France and in Tucson, travel this year in Southeast Asia, Australia, and India, Rome, and going to Prague next week.
5. A life full of incredible memories!
6. I am still curious, always eager to learn, and wishing I could learn French more quickly.
7. I am mostly generous and kind. My life is full of people from all over the world in many different circumstances. I choose to love humankind.
8. I am aware that our situation makes all these things possible. I am blessed. Life is good!
Last week was a good week for us! We had apéros last Sunday with neighbors, Carolyn and Franz. On Tuesday, I walked with a friend, Bea, while Dale had coffee with Nelson. We went to a party in the evening at Chateau de Puissentut, about 30 minutes from Lectoure. The party was a celebration of the previous week, by a visiting group of women participating in a cooking school. Our friend, Kate, assisted with planning for the weeklong event. Several of the women visited our house when they came to Lectoure's Friday market. It was a nice evening, with good food and wine. We had lunch with a recently widowed friend on Wednesday. We had friends for coffee on Thursday morning, then lunch with an American couple that has moved full time to Lectoure. We took friends, Judy and Laurence to lunch in Condom on Friday. Laurence is moving to Paris in a few weeks and we will miss her. On Friday evening we went for dinner at a new restaurant in Lectoure, O Badiu, with our friends Hilde and Filiep, and it was excellent. On Saturday morning, Caroline came for coffee at 10. That evening, we hosted Deirdre and her friends Susan and Wayne, from South Africa, for aperitifs. It was an interesting evening. Every day is a good day!
On Wednesday, we went for lunch with new neighbors and friends, Carolyn and Franz, to Auberge Le Prieure in Moirax. It is the nearest Michelin star restaurant to Lectoure and we always enjoy eating there. It was a cool day, so we ate inside, and we chose the private dining room. We had multiple courses over 2.5 hours, and each morsel was delicious! It was a delightful lunch! No trip to Moirax is complete without a visit to the Cluny Church built in the mid-1000’s. It is beautiful!
