Daily Archives: January 4, 2013

Fred of Verdun

France, People, Travel, VerdunBy Bruce Lyman January 4, 2013 Leave a comment

It only takes ten minutes or so and we are in open country. I am mildly surprised. Though how open is hard to say since it is still dark . But we are running fast through cuttings and against the first hint of light I see the outlines of winter trees. As we roll towards…

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Back to France

France, Trains, TravelBy Bruce Lyman January 4, 2013 Leave a comment

I am in Gare L’Est, a significant point in the novel I started writing ten years ago, Ironically it’s where I am to catch my train up to Verdun and was not a place I was planning on visiting. But here I am in a coffee shop lost in its cavernous halls, drinking crap coffee…

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