Va-nu-pieds’ Wall for All Seasons
Va-nu-pieds, the Barefoot Photographer, records the change in seasons in Paris by keeping an eye on the Virginia creeper that hangs along the wall of a building a step away from where he lives.
Paris Writers News Interviews Gary Lee Kraut
April 2011 – I’m normally the one asking the questions, but for an interview now appearing on the literary blog Paris Writers Notes, editor...
France Elevates Poet Aimé Césaire to Status of “Great Man” at Pantheon
April 6, 2011 – Little noticed and scantily attended on a warm and sunny spring day, France showed its gratitude to one of its...
Skytrees: Montmartre By Nightfall
Skytrees: Visions of time and place found by looking up through trees at an angle of more than 45 degrees. Here are some prime examples of skytrees in Paris and a recommendable restaurant entered at nightfall in Montmartre.
A Man’s Home May Not Be His Chateau: From Versailles to Vincennes
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.
Winter Benches, Paris
There’s a special atmosphere to the gardens and parks of Paris in winter, before the leaves appear on the trees and block the view.
Brandon...
Four French lessons I learned in February
March 6, 2011. Here are four French lessons that I learned in February on the Riviera and in Alsace.
1. Carnival in Nice
Nice’s Carnival, the...
The Gardens of Versailles in Winter
I’ve been to the palace and gardens of Versailles dozens of times but never on such a quiet, empty afternoon as this.
It was a...
Menton Revisited
Feb. 25, 2011 – Last weekend I returned to Menton, the town on the French Riviera just over the border from Italy, on the occasion of its annual Lemon Festival. I'd last been to Menton 15 years ago when I'd written about it for my guidebook to France.