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My wife, Becky, and I have been married 40 years. During that time, we have made a half-dozen journeys to Europe, as well as to other places.
But of all the places we've gone over the years, France has somehow always been special for my wife. So in September, we made one more "sentimental journey" there.
... overrun towns of the Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast of Italy. We boarded a train south out of Pa...
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Christensen discloses his satisfaction of having able to make the case that one could still remold one's identity even at mid-life. He recounts that after he had finished writing his memoir about the first twenty years of his life in southern France, he was able to define a relation between him as an American and the France that had long been an enigma to him. He narrates to have talked long and hard about his numbness and inflexibility upon first descending into the back country of the Luberon mountain, of how he seemed to thaw out and rediscover his senses little by little, as if were coming out of a prolonged, shallow coma after a long, middling academic career at Texas A&M University.
... consciousness, Greek, Roman, Ligurian, Provençal, embedded with the strata of its wars ...
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... Ellero Stream and on the South by the Ligurian Alps. The plain on the right of the Stura is sligh...
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... castles and hereditary lands along the Ligurian coast [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURES 6, 7 OMITTED] and ...
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If you're an experienced traveler, you may have done the usual Venice-Florence-Rome circuit. On your next trip, you might prefer to be hiking through the hill towns of Sicily or even spending two weeks in Vietnam. But your family is counting on you to show them Italy - and they're all first-time European travelers who haven't seen any of the famous sites or cities. One of them has never even been on a train, here or abroad.
How do you satisfy everyone's fantasies while preparing them for the realities of independent travel - not to mention psyching yourself up to revisit places you've been to before?
... strung along steep cliffs above the Ligurian Sea. She asked if there was a way we could fit the...