Monday, November 17, 2008

Notes from the past

Amazing what you can find when you're cleaning your entire house from top to bottom. After going through piles of crap in the basement (which deserves its own post someday), I found this travel itinerary from my grandmother's trip to Europe 40 years ago - complete with her own notes.

She apparently landed in Paris (I wonder if the airport was that horrible back then too), and then she immediately headed for of all places . . . ALSACE. Kind of weird to learn that your grandmother visited the same places back in the early 1970's that you lived. She went to the same restaurant that Patrick and I went to on our last day in France, the Crocodile - she had rack of lamb. She went down the wine route and found Riquewihr charming - shocking. And she made some passing comments about the huge Cathedral - no surprises there. Best part was that she was totally dissing on the other people on the tour with her traveling companion - so catty, I loved it.