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.
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 [...]
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.
Aug. 5, 2011. I think of it as The Summer That Wasn’t – L’Eté qui n’a pas été. Last month was the coolest July on record in 30 years and probably the grayest too. June [...]
Paris, July 15, 2011 – I had a delicious nap on the afternoon of le Quatorze Juillet, the French national holiday, known outside of France as Bastille Day. There had been the annual military parade [...]
May 2011—The Revisited Project expands this month with the creation of two sister sites: Europe Revisited and USA Revisited. These are not merely geographical conjugations of France Revisited. Each of these sites—think of them as web magazines— has its own particular and quirky approach to the territory of its title.
April 2011 – I’m normally the one asking the questions, but for an interview now appearing on the literary blog Paris Writers Notes, editor Laurel Zuckerman did the inquiring as she invited me to explain [...]
Château can be lazily translated as castle, but a traveler in France soon learns that there are many types of chateaux and not all are castles.
Feb. 14, 2011. With the winds of change blowing across North Africa and the Middle East it’s only natural to notice a slight breeze in France. The breeze can be seen in the form of [...]
