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Taking the Plunge (and Our Cat) to Explore Europe by Edward D. Webster |
| THE DREAM | |
| The Dream Felicia Had Always Wanted to Go to Europe A Year Is All I Ask The Answer Alternative Medicine Last-Minute Frenzy |
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| APRIL IS PARIS | |
| Nous Sommes Arrivés
(We Have Arrived) Settling In The Music of Paris The Fine Art of Feeling Paris The Life of Leisure Isn’t Always a Piece of Gâteau From Paws to the ’Pause Yes, Marguerite, There Is Accessible Art in the City They’re Everywhere, and They’re Great—Computer Geeks Music of the Night So Much Music, So Little Time (and Stamina) Violins, Birds, and Elbow Macaroni Roots of My Melancholy A Daisy for Her Hand Sacre Bleu, There Is Life After Paris |
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| PANNENKOEKEN IN HOLLAND | |
| Dutch Feast, Balloons Included Finding a Base To Hattem We Will Go Pannenkoeken Creeping Melancholy Beware the Appen To Euphoria and Back Rijsttafel for Two, and a Touch of Gossip Good-bye, Old Hut On to Hekendorp Out and About in the Dorp From Keukenhof to Haarlem to the Edge of Gloom Success on All Fronts Oudewater, Holland—Witch-Testing Center of the Universe Days and Evenings of Bliss Looking Back, Looking Ahead The Fine Art of Packing |
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| BRITTANY—FISH BRAINS AND HORMONES | |
| France—Home of the Gourmet First Encounters with the Bretons At Night We Hear the Puisse The Great Supermarket Expedition Progress, Success, and Lack Thereof A Minority View of Effie A Boy and a Grieving Man Lobstrosities and Phantoms of the Past American Improvements When My Cat’s Not Happy, I’m Blue Cyberspace, Here We Are Good, Old-Fashioned Dentistry We Need Drugs to Fight the Laundry-Day Blues Booking a 300-Year-Old Farmhouse Menopausal Woman Surviving the Great Storm Trying Not to Hit Bottom Dark Humor Sending Willard’s Spirit to the Winds Moving In with the Anes The Big Decision Stalking the English Tongue A Spot of English with Our Tea, Please Life Begins with Hormones Speaking Simply Winged Demons of the Farm Au Revoir, Nos Amis |
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| ON THE ROAD (TO BETTER SANITY) | |
| Breaking Away Scattering Our Blues Cruising the Bodensee and Being Taken for a Ride Edging into the Alps Summer Is the Best Time at a Ski Resort |
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| THE LAND OF MOZART | |
| The New Digs Little Annoyance Our Long-Lost E-Mail A New Long-Lost Friend The Forces of Felicia Reinforcements Arrive Supermarkets Are Tough All Over How Do You Say Birthday in German? More Reinforcements On the Move Again |
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| GREECE—VOYAGE TO CATS AND CHAOS | |
| Fleeing the Teutonic World—a Stop in Italy Voyage to Chaos From Hell on Wheels to Hell on a Rooftop Living Within View of the Acropolis Kini—Harbor of Dreams on the Island of Syros More Tea, More English, No More Feta Cheese, Please Detour to Autumn—the Pelion Peninsula On the Crazy Road Again Maintaining the English Connection on the Island of Poros Felicia Is My Greek Word for “Love” Closing Greece |
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| CINQUE TERRE, ITALY—DESPERATELY SEEKING HOT WATER | |
| Bal-con-y or Spumoni Exploring Our New Universe Water Heater Repair 101 Miraculous Vision in Riomaggiore Hot Water—Yes, I Can Fix |
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| PERCHED IN THE HILLS OF PROVENCE | |
| The Côte
d’Azur for Connoisseurs A Shipment of Happiness from Home The Big Question Is When? Lessons on French Language and Customs and an Ugly American At Harmony with the Rhythms of Rural France To See or Not to See Cleaning Up Is Hard to Do |
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| FEELING OUR WAY INTO THE ITALIAN SOUL | |
| The Great Lake Maggiore Rescue of ’97 Venice in the Murk Searching for a Home, Searching for Health The Real Don Corleone To Puncture of Not to Puncture If Siena Won’t Hold the Palio in November, We’ll Do Our Own Frozen in the Middle Ages Country Life The Agony and the Ecstasy of Florence Extraordinary |
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| SPAIN—NOT JUST A PLATE OF PAELLA | |
| Toledo—Dilemma of the Day: Asparagus with Garlic
or Larry King Live? Música Romántica Seville—Apartamento con cocina, por favor Choosing Our Christmas Beneficiary Finishing the Final Exam and Preparing for Christmas Company Christopher Columbus, Ben Franklin, Tricia, and Felicia Feeling History Deeply Señora Limones Is One of a Kind We Consider Life and Our Voyage Felicia, Felicidad |
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| A BIT OF FRANCE AND THEN HOME | |
| Life Is a Croissant We Love You, Paris Apprehension Joins the Holiday A House Is Not a Homecoming Afterward—Almost a Year Later |
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