In our 14 years together I’ve taken you to cities around the world introducing

While Paris is enveloped in new sporting spaces for the Olympics,

When I visit an Olympic City past or present,

Watching TV’s The Gilded Age while in Chicago last month,

For 13 years my travel column “Been There, HAVEN’T Done That”

In June I participated in the 25th anniversary of the American Friends of Versailles –