It's been raining a lot here at Chez Henley over the last week or so.
My garden is growing beautifully. If you show up at our place any time starting in the next few weeks, you're likely to have eggplants, peppers, squash and tomatoes forced on you. The grass on my lawn needs mowing every few days here in the verdant suburbs and Teri's flowers are blooming like crazy.
Our beautiful and slightly damp spring reminds me that it also rains in Europe, and, just like here, they have wet spells and dry spells across the pond. We've had trips to Europe where we barely saw a drop of rain and others where it rained for several days in a row. I'll let you know the 10 day forecast for Paris as we get a little closer to the trip, but the deal is that there's no way of knowing how much rain we'll have on our little parade.
I like to say that when you're traveling, there's no such thing as bad weather--only unprepared tourists. To that end, I highly suggest you pack a light nylon rain poncho. Teri and I bought a couple of cheap ponchos (or anoraks) over 10 years ago and they've served us well many, many times. I think we got ours at Old Navy, but I just checked their website and couldn't find them for sale. Not to worry, I'm sure you can get something just as good from WalMart or LL Bean or any number of other retailers. I did find a really nice one on Rick Steve's website for $30 and a whole lot of different ones on the Amazon website.
Ours fold up into their own little pouch that weighs almost nothing and takes very little space in your backpack. But when the skies open up, they're a lifesaver.
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Spring for the nice nylon poncho in a pouch, not the disposable kind you get in a pouch of two at the dollar store. We did that in Italy and it almost got us banned from the county. We looked like tacky American tourists. I'll be happy to tell the whole drawn out story sometime. Another example of how Hank is trainable!
Another tale for an evening on deck.
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