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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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Glenn Dobbs
Jun 7, 20223 min read
The Appetizer
June 6, 2022 “The French air cleans up the brain and does good - a world of good” - Vincent Van Gogh It took two days, three plane rides,...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 22, 20222 min read
"Your test result is...."
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” - Gustave Flaubert We have been talking about it for the...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 20, 20224 min read
Eating with Picasso
“To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 18, 20225 min read
Melting in the Rain
“MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 15, 20224 min read
The Mezquita
March 14, 2022 “There is no beginning too small” - Henry David Thoreau Anyone who has ever read these postcards from our travels knows...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 14, 20223 min read
The Train to Cordoba
March 13, 2022 “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” - Agnes Repplier Trains really are wonderful things. ...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 12, 20223 min read
The Rain in Spain…and QAnon
March 10-12, 2022 “To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.” - St Teresa of Avila...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 10, 20224 min read
Paseo Scenes
March 8-9, 2022 “We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 9, 20225 min read
The Ghost of Chris
March 7, 2022 “I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown…….These people are very unskilled in...
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