Best Things of 2025

See also Best Things of 2024 and Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023 and Best Articles 2021 and Top Ten Articles of 2025.

1. Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou.

1. Soviet Dawn: THe Russian Civil War 1918-1921 solitaire wargame

1. Becherel, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.

1. Shepherds for Sale by Megan Basham

1. Taste Chinese restaurant in West Lafayette, Indiana.

1. The Office

1. Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party (1980) is a novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.

1. Rouen Cathedral.

1. French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.

1. Leather backpacks-- Marius one.

1. Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.

1. Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.

1. The New Board of Trustees

1. Sleeping in airplanes sitting up

1. French roadside "aires"