Tag: Friends and Strangers

In Transit: The Route to Shangri-La

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In this prequel to a bar, restaurant and hotel review, the author encounters an Italian, three Kazakhstanis and an impatient French woman on the route to Shangri-La.

Destination Brittany, final part (5): The return home

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Destination Brittany, travels with Henri, part 5: In which Henri and I kiss our host good-bye, visit Dinan and speed back to Paris.

Destination Brittany, part 4 of 5: tu, vous, and ma promenade

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Destination Brittany, travels with Henri, part 4 of 5: Just before the party in Dinard on Saturday evening another guest arrived at the neighbor’s house where Henri and I were staying. He was a young actor from Paris and he, too, knocked at the door empty-handed except for his overnight bag.

Destination Brittany, part 3 of 5: party clothes

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Destination Brittany, travels with Henri, part 3 of 5: My brother Jon would have loved Dinard. He liked anything with the word resort in it: beach resort, ski resort, island resort, tennis resort. Wearing “smart casual” or “resort casual” came natural to him. After he died in a plane accident in 2006 my three other brothers and I inherited his clothes.

Destination Brittany, part 2 of 5: Exploring the Coast

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In which Henri and I explore the Emerald Coast of Brittany from Saint Malo to Cancale by way of Jacques Cartier's house, the sculpted rocks near Rothéneuf and the Point du Grouin

Destination Brittany, part 1 of 5: Travels with Henri

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Destination Brittany, travels with Henri, Part I: Henri and I had never taken a road trip together, so we had no way of knowing how compatible we would be in deciding which towns and sights to visit along the way and where to stop for lunch or coffee or even a pee.

Of Cats and Friends

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Travel writing can be solitary work, but a travel writer with a cat needs friends. I used to leave my chartreux Moumoon with Isabelle, but...

Still Life with Eiffel Tower

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My friend Monique is tall, thin, recently single, and recently blonde. She’s invited me to a play at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 8:30 curtain....

Natural expedition in Vendée or Still life with children

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Given the choice between an afternoon with screaming kids and a nature expedition in flat, damp Vendee, south of the Loire by the Atlantic coast...

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