On our stroll back to our hotel, I turned to my French husband and wondered why we don't find this type of restaurant, the rich, luscious food, the "ambiance bon enfant" - informal, easy-going, lively, convivial atmosphere - in our own city of Nantes.
Although Telluride, with a population of about 2,000, has drawn celebrities and power brokers -- including Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Sen. Jon Corzine and Hideo Morita, the Sony Corporation heir who co-owns the ski company -- who have homes up on the mountain, on our strolls around town we encountered a decidedly more gritty cabal of locals.
There were no signs of fire on our Sunday stroll down Cliffe High Street later that morning, just the whiff of middle-class hippiedom in the stylish gift shops, antique emporiums and smart delis (there's a branch of Bill's here).
We don't become politically minded on our first stroll to the polling booth at age 18.
On the same trip as our stroll around Manhattan, he and my mother came to Cape Cod with my family.
On our first morning we stroll to get the lay of the land.
As a kid, bored on long afternoons, I'd hold a makeshift sign in the window of our third-floor apartment in the hope that someone strolling on our quiet stretch of Seventy-fifth Street would look up.
On one stroll, I come to the turreted Sultan's fort, built in 1808.
And got to break-up or get dumped with a bit of dignity, instead of being forced to relive it all on our social accounts, taking a stroll through digital memory lane, only to find him sharing selfies with the new girlfriend, hiking on Mt. Tam far too soon after we ended.
On our Sunday lunchtime visit, we strolled past a sun-dappled river Thames lined with candyfloss trees showering summertime confetti.
SEAL flashed one on a recent stroll through Central Park with his children.
