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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 11, 20223 min read
Notre Voyage Est Terminé
July 11, 2022 “At the next roundabout, take the second exit…” - By far the most common phrase we heard from Google maps on this long...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 9, 20225 min read
To Top It Off
July 8, 2022 ”Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 6, 20222 min read
Dichotomous Travel
July 6, 2022 “Oh thank God, we are back to the France I like…” - Colleen Dobbs How can any reasonable person complain about being on the...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 3, 20225 min read
Some Things Are Louder Than Chickens
July 3, 2022 “….waving through a window” — Dear Evan Hansen It was the quality of the cars that I first noticed. This was not a casual...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jul 1, 20223 min read
The Last Day in Illyria
July 1, 2022 “So it goes on, a lament for a simpler, cheaper, less crowded world that may or may not have existed except in nostalgic...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 30, 20228 min read
The Undiscovered Country - 6 days in Provence
“And, as for the oil, it is a masterpiece. You’ll see. Before dinner that night, we tested it, dripping it onto slices of bread that had...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 25, 20222 min read
La Cite
“Yet could I these two days have spent. While still the autumn sweetly shone, Ah me! I might have died content when I looked on...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 24, 20223 min read
This Is Us
“We then wed our lithofacies analysis with systematic detrital zircon sampling to assess the role depositional environments play on...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 23, 20224 min read
The Dordogne and Something for Doug
“When I married Eleanor, I thought: ‘You lucky man. The richest woman in the world. She owns the Aquitaine, the greatest province on the...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 21, 20223 min read
Souviens-Toi
“Oradour was not a crime due to madness but the logic of a system. We must remember this not to see it again, we must live and build a...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 18, 20225 min read
Africa Hot
June 16-18, 2022 “Man it’s hot. It’s like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot.” - Neil Simon We are experiencing an...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 16, 20222 min read
Breton
June 15, 2022 “He who gets the grace of the women is neither hungry nor thirsty.” -Breton Proverb We traveled southwest into the wilds of...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 15, 20224 min read
The Pursuit of Butter and Minas Tirith
June 14, 2022 “Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 15, 20223 min read
Stories from Utah
June 13, 2022 "We'll start the war from right here." --Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of the former president, who landed...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 14, 20225 min read
D'Accord, Allons-Y
June 12, 2022 “Just look at it, gentlemen. How calm... how peaceful it is. A strip of water between England and the continent... between...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 14, 20224 min read
Bayeux & Arromanches
June 11, 2022 “History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..” ― M.J. Colewood, The Last Treasure of Ancient...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 10, 20222 min read
It's Evocative
June 10, 2022 “Here is the thing….everything, I mean everything tastes better here. Its amazing…” -Glenn Dobbs at lunch today There is a...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 10, 20222 min read
Honfleur & Etretat
June 9, 2022 “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Or close the wall up with our English dead……….. I see you stand like...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 9, 20224 min read
"I've fallen down and...."
June 8, 2022 “If it had not been for his malice, forcing me to return, I would have been able to recover the whole of Outremer. (Crusader...
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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 8, 20226 min read
A Walk in Rouen
June 7, 2022 “It was now autumn, and I made up my mind to make, before winter set in, an excursion across Normandy, a country with which...
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