The latest Adventures

Bonjour, tout le monde! 

We have been adventuring out to see the world on our weekends. Thiers, the town nearby that we visited a few weekends ago, is known for making knives.  While we were there, we stumbled upon a little shop that gives you the experience of making your own Thiers pocket knife. We went back the weekend after to do that and it was fascinating! They walk you through each step and you get to help put it together. Each knife is honed to near-perfect precision. After that, we had a lovely lunch at a restaurant called Le Chaudron (The Cauldron) that was in a very, very old medieval building. The old architecture here is just amazing. 

The next day, the weather was perfect so we went to the Puy-de-Dome. We took the train up and wandered around the perimeter. The views were amazing! After lunch, we did a two-hour hike back down, which was tough on the muscles but good for the soul! 

This past weekend, we stayed home but wandered around the city and went to various shops. We also went inside the Cathedral, which is its own architectural accomplishment. On Sunday, we went to see the new Doctor Strange movie. Lesson learned: Always make sure that your ticket says “V.O.” (original version) On it if you want to actually hear it in english and not completely in french! Luckily the movie theater was kind and exchanged our tickets for a later showing, and it did turn out to be a great movie!