Where the Seine Flows, and Our Love: The Mirabeau Bridge
You don't have to cross the Pont Mirabeau, the Mirabeau Bridge, to know the famous poem of the same name by Guillaume Apollinaire.
VNP: The Iron Lady’s sophisticated lacework
Va-nu-pieds: the sophisticated lacework of the most visited lady in Paris… and my foot. La dentelle sophistiquée de la dame la plus visitée de Paris.... et mon pied.
When’s the best time…
Several times each week someone asks me “When is the best time of year to visit France?”
I usually answer "Whenever you can make it."...
Wine, Women and, Yes, Song
A man with a passion will view the entire world though the optic of that passion. Whatever it may be—wine, women, motorcycles, baseball, Egyptology,...
Va-nu-pieds: Le Lion de Belfort, Place Denfert Rochereau
Early morning in Paris, Va-nu-pieds, the Barefoot Photographer, visits the Lion of Belfort by Bartholdi on Place Denfert Rochereau.
3 French Sculptors Met at the Met: Carpeaux, Rodin, Bourdelle
Considerations on coming upon narrative sculptures by three great French sculptors, Carpeaux, Rodin, Bourdelle, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York .
Zorro, Le Musical
Paris, February 2010—I get a thrill whenever I walk into the Folies Bergères, past its Art Deco façade and into its kitsch lobby that...
Arbor Day and the Award-winning Travel Writer
On becoming a double award-winning travel writer on the occasion of Arbor Day, despite the demise of the silky dogwood.
Va-nu-pieds: April in Paris
Va-nu-pieds, the barefoot photographer, visits Lady Liberty on Ile aux Cygnes and in the Luxembourg Garden.