Tag: winter
In Dordogne: A Winter’s Woodcock Tale
One wintery day in Dordogne, Janet Duignan spots a woodcock foraging in the backyard, leading to reflections on 250 years of fine-feathered cuisine and wine.
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.
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...
Winter in Paris: Does size matter on the ice canal?
Winter in Paris: As ice forms on the Canal Saint Martin photographers take to the bridges and cobblestones and snowy edges.
Va-nu-pieds: Square Paul Painlevé, La Neige / Snow
The barefoot French photographer Va-nu-pieds enjoys a rare walk in the snow in Paris and stops by a Siberian elm in the Latin Quarter.
Catching the Spirit of Nice’s Winter Carnival and Menton’s Lemon Festival
Stephanie Sommers catches the spirit, the spectacle, the excitement, and the humor of the king of French Carnival celebrations in Nice and its pucker-lipped...
La Rochelle: A Winter Wanderbout in an Old Port Town, Part II: Day
The following morning is sunny and cool. I have breakfast in a café facing the port. I visit the Saturday morning market in and around Les Halles, the covered food market on Place du Marché. I enter the massive, graceless cathedral looking for a chapel of ship-theme ex-votos. Every port town has one. ..
La Rochelle: A Winter Wanderbout in an Old Port Town, Part I: Night
I am not a seafaring man. My ancestors took several billions of years to evolve from the deep; I see no reason to go back. But give me a safe old port town on a misty evening, even on a cold winter’s night like this, and I’ll wander about for hours as if looking for chance.
Writing without gloves
On a cold Paris winter day, as the ice thickens on Canal Saint Martin, the writer takes off his gloves to work.