Just started reading My Paris Dream and your report. Enjoyed the kerouac country reference and look forward to more of the report. We won't make Paris this year and we are both missing it.

We're in Lucerne right now, where there was a terrific storm, but only a little hail.

This is the second year in a row we've headed north for our holidays, only to find it hotter than it was back home in central Italy. No air conditioning in our hotel either, with a room on the top floor, and 30+ temperatures. The bed, like those in Scotland, has no top sheet; instead it's furnished with a polar-expedition-weight duvet.

Looking forward to reading more about your adventures! If the heat remains, there's always a nice scoop of Berthillon!

" polar-expedition-weight duvet."

Hate duvets! And they seem to be metastasizing. I take them out of the cover and sleep under that.