The photo below may look like an ordinary view of a man and a woman jogging on a bike path in Paris, but there’s something extraordinary going on here. No matter their relationship, what’s most surprising is that they were together at all in these t-shirts.
I normally speak to groups that invite me because they’re interested in the subject of my talk, whether some aspect of travel, wine, culture, writing or travel journalism. But at this recent event the group didn’t have any prior interest in France as far as I could tell, so I was unsure about the best approach to speak to them about the country where I live.
Feb. 14. Love is in the air, that’s what the calendar says: courtly love, big heart love, flower love, filial love, parental love, fraternal love, sisterly love, lost love, Facebook love (well, like), commercial love, [...]
This is not a restaurant review of Oth Sombath, a French-Thai restaurant on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris’s 8th arrondissement where I went as a favor to a French expert in gastronomy, unless he was doing me the favor of inviting me.
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Dec. 2011. Some much appreciated recognition came knocking at my screen this month, one via from California, the other via Melbourne, Australia. First the California-based North American Travel Journalist Association informed me that I was their “featured [...]
Visitors often ask me about the price of an apartment in Paris. Nothing fancy, they say, just a little one- or two-bedroom pied-à-terre in case they decide to come more often. Here then are some examples of [...]
Nov. 2, 2011. There’s something therapeutic about turning the clocks back in the fall—harsh reality therapy. For an hour or two we can fool ourselves into believing that we’ve gained an hour of Saturday night [...]
Photolog of a daytrip to the Chateau de Chantilly, 25 minutes north of Paris by train, at the entrance to the Picardy region. It includes the Conde Museum of Henri d’Orleans (Duc d’Aumale), palatial stables, gardens (including by Le Notre) and park.
