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Chauvet, 200th post!

Chauvet-Pont d’Arc in Ardèche, France, an enormous, stunning, prehistoric painted cave, is closed for preservation. Its replica, called Chauvet 2, opened to the public in 2015. The original cave is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The oldest site I visited on this journey…

L’Aven d’Orgnac, Sarlat

The painted caves I visited in the south of France did not, for the most part, exhibit the concretions usually seen in caves formed, and still forming, by water. It is thought that the lack of moisture and leaking or dripping water that created other…

Les Combarelles, Pech-Merle caves

The next two days, on this south of France journey, we ventured into two more natural caves that had been open to the air for thousands of years. Like Font-de-Gaume, the caves were preserved as much as possible, once their significance was realized, with minimal…

Lascaux

In 1940, four teenage boys and their dogs explored the grounds around the old Lascaux castle, in the Périgord region of France, looking for treasure. Robot, the dog, fell into a hole. They were able to rescue him, and could see there was an underground cave.…

Les Eyzies, Font-de-Gaume cave

Picturesque Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, which calls itself the Center of Prehistory in Dordogne, France is surrounded by cliffs and rock formations, and is home to caves, shelters, and remains from tens of thousands of years and more in the past. It’s situated in the Vézère Valley,…

Saintes, Saint-Césaire

The themes for this week-long tour across the south of France were Neanderthals, early humans, and prehistoric painted caves. As someone who has a degree in art and has studied art history, I signed up for the cave art. But we had one more day…

Bordeaux

The heart of this September 2025 Europe trip was a tour across the south of France to visit prehistoric cave paintings (blogs to come). We were to meet early in the morning at the Bordeaux airport and travel from there. So I booked a stay…

Setúbal 

An hour and a half bus ride, about 30 miles (40km) southeast from Lisbon, lies the much smaller city of Setúbal. An artist friend from Colorado moved there recently to join an expat artist community. I was pleased to see she seems to be settling…

Lisbon

There’s something romantic about the western European cities. Sitting in a sidewalk café with a cappuchino, chairs positioned at small round tables, facing out to watch the world go by. Busy people and those just strolling, fashionable, hip, students with backpacks, business people dressed for…

No Kings, Denver

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr. The Denver Post estimated 30,000 people attended the protest, and other crowds in smaller cities and towns across Colorado, and more, one news source said seven…

Barcelona

Some artists take generations to have their works completed. Antonin Gaudi, whose art and architecture grace Barcelona, was one of them. I hadn’t been to Barcelona for twenty-four years. But after spending a week in Spain (Madrid, Alhama), it beckoned. I had heard that there…

Alhama de Aragón

A small spa town or balneario, Alhama is located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, tucked between green hills. The river Jalón, a tributary of the Ebro, runs through it. Having spent many years as an English teacher abroad, I have often attended a week…

Madrid

Every few years, I’ve done an English immersion week in Spain or elsewhere in Europe. This June I returned (next post). I’ve taken some time off from blogging this summer and will again soon, as I leave for another trip. I hope to catch up…

Playa del Carmen, Cenote

The beach town of Playa del Carmen in January was packed with tourists, touristy shops, hotels in town, resorts on the water’s edge. After a little over two weeks exploring Mexico, I finally made it to a beach. A dip in Dos Ojos Cenote, a…

Chichén Itzá

The most majestic and the most visited of Mexico’s Maya ruins is Chichén Itzá on the Yucatán peninsula. Its proximity to the Atlantic coast makes it a popular day trip for beach and resort tourists. So we went early in the morning to beat most of…

Uxmal

The Maya ruins of Uxmal are a one hour drive from Mérida. It’s thought that the city was constructed around 700CE, was home to around 25,000 people and once dominated the region along with Chichen Itza. The name is believed to mean “three times built,”…

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