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Life & Culture by Eric Trules. After 40 years in the LA desert, 3 years in Santa Fe, and a recent divorce, I have "self-deported", still telling personal stories about myself, my travels & world view, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
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Travel Photos, La France #7 (Le Fin): Albi and Toulouse (opens the original)
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Oh, la vache! (Holy cow!)Seven “Travel Photo” posts, all taken during my 3-month housesitting journey from the wine-soaked Loire Valley, to the City of Lights, Paris, to the snow-capped peaks of the French Alps, to the hot box of Southern France.Well, this will be the last of them, a fairly quick look at the towns of Albi and Toulouse, with photos captured from two different day trips made from my little stone house in Viviez, in my borrowed, yellow air-conditioner-less Renault, driving through
Nothing Lasts? (opens the original)
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Surprisingly, many of you have asked me for “more history”.Well, this week, being one scheduled for personal essay, I’ll try to pull a “sleight of verse” - by combining both world history and… some of my own.Eric Trules' Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a Free Subscriber. Or BETTER YET, UPGRADE to becoming a PAID SUBSCRIBER!<form class=
Travel Photos: La France #6, Grenoble, Conques, and More (opens the original)
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No, I’m not in France right now.But I don’t want to confuse you, especially if you’re joining me for the first time.I’ve been in England since the end of June. In fact, I’m on my 5th of 6 consecutive housesits in the UK, now in the lovely small town of Pershore on the River Avon. I have one more housesit in Andover, and then I’ll be off to Albania… then Greece.But more of that later.Just know that I post these “Travel Photos” almost 3 months after I’ve taken them, so that… they’re already a “ret
Tending Your Garden (opens the original)
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You’ve probably all heard how HOT it has been in Europe this summer.When I was in southern France near Toulouse at the end of June, it was 40 degrees Centigrade (104 degrees Fahrenheit). I was driving a small furnace of a car without air conditioning, and housesitting a home where you closed the windows and shutters all day long until the sun set. I bought myself a cheap fan because you guessed it - no air conditioning in the house either. Fortunately, it was an old stone French farmhouse, which
Travel Photos: La France #5, the French Alps (opens the original)
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You’re in for a treat today, my fellow adventurers.We’re in the French Alps, in a little town called Rumilly.It’s between the better-known Lake Annecy and Aix-les-Bains, the so-called “Riviera of the Alps”. In the Haute-Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. Not far from Geneva, Switzerland.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_XbK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media
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