Seems like I post just once a year . . .

One of Lisbon’s famous trams.
Photo by Carloszk on Freeimages.com

… when I’m getting ready to take another trip. And here were are. Getting ready to go to Portugal again, then hopping over to Southern France, ending up in Nice for a few days. REALLY looking forward to it.

We’ll be spending the first part of the trip (May23-27) in Lisbon which my traveling companion Leslie says we didn’t see enough of last year. And I pretty much agree with that. We went from Lisbon to Porto, and saw some other cities along the drive back south, but didn’t spend as much time in Lisbon as it probably deserved.

Villefranche-sur-mer, 2018.
© 2018 Dave Dufour

We’re then going to grab a flight to Toulouse, which I’ve seen billed as a mini-Paris. We’ll spend a day or so there, and then off to Carcassonne, and then driving east toward Avignon and Arles. That part of the trip isn’t as well thought out but it will be. Eventually we’ll be in my old stomping grounds (so to speak) of Nice and the Cote d’Azur. Hoping to capture more personal photography in all these locations, which is sort of hard to do if you’re in more tourist locations.

I’ll be taking my Canon EOS R camera with a couple lenses. I may or may not take a film camera. My trusty Rolleicord is in need of a repair, and it may not get one ever, considering parts are hard to come by. Breaks my heart, actually, but I will see what I can do. I don’t currently have a good traveling medium format camera, unless you count a Holga (I don’t, really), but I may pick something up between now an wheels up.