Something will go here one day soon...Gaiety, merriment and dancing, etc.

Regular visitors here will have noticed the refurbishment is taking longer than expected.  This is mainly due to me getting very hooked on tracing my family history, which seems to have more skeletons than a medieval plague pit, and as many black sheep as a farm with several black sheep. 

Read about it here.

In August 2017 we visited Paris.  Our main plan was for Martin to attend the 37th International Puzzle Party (IPP37).  We spent a week exploring Paris before the party, then joined 70 other attendees for a 5-day tour of NW France.  Before departing I had been reading “Paris” by Edward Rutherfurd, an 800-page epic tale of France through the ages, seen through the eyes of various different characters.  One of the main characters was a welder working on the construction of the Eiffel Tower.  The book encouraged us to visit some lesser-known parts of Paris.  Maps.  These are of our walks around Paris, and the various legs of the subsequent coach tour of NW France.

170730a Montparnasse Cemetery 

Having long wanted to visit the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery we decided to have a warm-up visit to this one, just a short walk NW of the hotel.