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Yess, it's so worth a visit and extremely quiet, with gorgeous views (it's up HIGH).

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It's Our Lady of Chartres Cathedral, which is definitely less visited despite a train station only an hour's ride from Paris (and even less from us). They have a relic room that's said to hold Mary's veil. It also has a ton of 13th century stained glass, and the most adorable friendly town center.

Open until 7PM!! A wooden door with a smaller open door with stone saints guarding it

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Shout out to @findchaos.bsky.social for randomly saying we should explore and then we accidentally walked up 300 flights of stairs to a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I love that crazy bastard and their love of climbing to the top of mysteries.

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It was a good day. ☀️ 💕

A trans man standing in front of some unfinished stone aqueducts

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

People in France smoke a lot so when I reach for a pack, they are always disappointed (these are throat lozenges that are shaped like cigarette packages)

Two different throat lozenges, cherry and lemon flavored

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Anyway absolutely not the guy you would picture bonding over vegan bacon and stray kittens but there we were..

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Got a bunch of the prettiest and cheapest grapes we've ever seen (it is grape season here) and we had a couple before we put them away in our tiny fridge, and omg, I only regret not being able to share them with the dogs/EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSE (that isn't a fascist)..

A large grocery store bin of beautiful green grapes with purple and pink hues

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Anyway guess who made friends with some cute SHEEP too? Papa is a friend to all animals, idk why.

A large dog staring at a cute sheep who is staring back

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Tiny roses in our tiny bathroom with the tiny Ikea shelf I set up for our tiny toiletries.

Tiny red roses in a vase in a tiny bathroom against a mirror

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Migraine day today so nothing but a lot of crying but @findchaos.bsky.social went to the shops and brought back things to eat and the cutest bouquet of tiny roses. 💕 🌹 They've been taking care of me all day and I'm extremely grateful, it's very scary having a medical episode in a new home country.

A bouquet of red roses that's actually very tiny roses -- I should have put something against them for scale but Migraine Brain

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Scored a handmade tiny rug for €6 at Resources &Vous (a charity thrift shop chain here) and omg, she is so beautiful. We have tile floors in this temporary rental while we look for a better one and the pets slip constantly, so this is perfect!

A black cat checking out a handmade Moroccan rug

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Just making sweet eyes at each other, vibing.. There are other horses but only this one and his two donkey friends are keen on Papa, the other horses are like "meh"

A large dog staring up at a large horse who is trying to get closer to him

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So they're in love now I guess. His horse friend literally neigh-screamed when he saw us and started happy rolling, which made Papa happy roll, and then they sniffed each other like usual and rolled some more -- then he and the donkeys followed us to the end of the paddock :')

A horse putting his head through a fence to sniff a large dog

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OH FRANCE NO (and of course @findchaos.bsky.social did not hurt it and seamlessly grabbed it off of my leg and into a cup) But probably a male who dies quickly whereas the females are EVEN BIGGER and live up to 8 years So named Cardinal after the 16thCent. Cardinal who was scared shitless of them

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It's also getting wildly colder here, so we went to our local B&M (it's kinda like a K-Mart/Big Lots esque store with a little bit of everything for very cheaply) and got two cat beds and luckily the cats took to them right away instead of the usual outright rejection (catnip helped).💕 ❤️ 🐈‍⬛

A small black cat laying in a red heart cat bed

A fluffy black cat laying in a grey cat bed

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Doggy adventures! Big props to @findchaos.bsky.social for getting the Butt-Up rolling picture of Papa.

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I also really love the train station Versailles Rive Gauche but to paint it would be to invent artistic skills, patience and straight lines that I do not possess haha.

A wikipedia image of the Versailles Rive Gauche train station to RER C connections

My own blurry shot of the same train station from today

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Little watercolor kit for little watercolors. This one by me, bc I stole @findchaos.bsky.social little watercolors set haha

A tiny watercolor kit for painting on the go

A rough watercolor painting of Moulins de Versailles partly from photo and partly from memory

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We also found a 400+ year old oak tree, which was thoroughly inspected and told it was a very good tree. 💕 🐺🌳

A large dog looking up at the 400+ yo oak tree

A large dog sticking his Head into a hollow of the oak tree

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pretty nice spot to watercolor and chill... 🎨 🐺

Two dogs happily sitting in the free and dog friendly outer park of Versailles

Morning shot of the early Fall leaves in the free and very dog friendly outer park in Versailles

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Rainy day shallot tart while @findchaos.bsky.social was away. A whole bag of shallots here is less than €1. 💕🧅🥧

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our view/doggy walk yesterday morning, which is just a relaxing stroll away past a few horse paddocks, a local elementary school and up a nondescript hill.. 💕

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These are 3 day old tiger mosquito bites and they are still somehow itchy. I don't scratch them, they just make puffy huge welts by themselves and scab over. Stiffler had trouble bending their arm for a day because of a softball sized allergic reaction... But at least the pharmacists are so nice!

A trans mans arm with scabs on it and faint scarification outlining

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Also yes those are natural finger waves in my bangs -- yes my hair is messy from walking/errands/dog laying on head but I finally have natural ringlets??? Is France doing this? Idk. Also unrelated I've been off T for a month bc my US doctor is horrible so unfortunately my face has softened a bit..

A trans man with a finger in a natural ringlet of hair making a concerned/surprised face

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Happy boys. He flopped against me as soon as he hopped onto the pull out bed. My giant teddy bear... 💕

A trans man with a large dog flopped against his head

Another angle of the floppiest of flops of a large dog onto my head

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France is fairy rules because how is it that a quick park trip always takes us 3 hours of walking before we realize we've been walking for 3 hours, and then our bodies are like "omg I'm exhausted!!" Oh well, happy tired dogs that don't need another walk today, so hurrah.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Picture of a gate left open at Versailles that we definitely did not go down in, legally

A gate left open to a stairwell and rounded entrance beyond that may or may not lead to more secret tunnels

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Editing videos of the dog friendly Abbey we visited and I love how Papa is just absolutely chuffed by architecture and views.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Puppy + Nix throughout the years:

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cuddling his puppy as hard as he can.. 💕

A small black fluffy cat curled into and with one back leg over the butt/backside of a large Northern breed dog

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

6 minutes of tunnel compressed into 52 seconds. And yes it is THAT SHORT -- there are tons of things you have to go under first to prove you fit in the Shorty Tunnels. Pure terror.

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KDotInk @kdotink.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A little crowd work video from Central Park's famous Bow Bridge which we didn't realize we went on Labor Day, right before our flights to France. Luckily the dogs were just tickled pink!! 🩷 They love Challenges haha.

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Truly one of the most beautiful and intense and peaceful places we have ever been together, especially with the dogs too haha.. Free.99 because of Stiffler's Cultural Attaché status and everyone was absolutely lovely to us, including the tour groups and school field trip that showed up. In love.

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These grounds also had very cool stereoscopic viewers designed by Architecture students from Paris, depicting the former interiors that were dismantled in the 1700s.

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A very tired dog who saw some cool history and was cooed over by a tour group of like a hundred priests today.

A sleeping large dog on the edge of a wool blanket on a bed (yes I'm sitting on the floor, he likes me to sit on the floor and sleep on the floor otherwise he gets too hot/uncomfortable if he tries to spread out so I am Floor Daddy)

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