Sometimes you just need to commune with the mineral water.
Sometimes you just need to commune with the mineral water.
One of the windows on the back side of our building was open. To this point, we had ignored their existence (largely because they are rarely open).
Years from now, when I look back at our brief time in Lyon, I’m probably going to remember two things: first, that it was hot (surprise, surprise, more-southern France is indeed toasty in the summer) and second, that we hiked all the way back across town to retrieve a wooden lion that I had purchased …
It has been three weeks since we went to Kraków, and still I find myself far away from having anything intelligent to say about the place. It is not as if it was a bad trip; indeed, we wound up staying for an extra day after EasyJet moved our departing flight up to an unpleasantly …
While I finally took a look through the pictures that I took while we were in Poland last weekend, I have made essentially no progress on writing either the associated post or the captions. So here’s a picture of a screaming octopus kite, taken last night as we sat on the esplanade in front of …
We headed to our home away from home (it is almost embarrassing: this was our sixth time in Rouen) in search of cheap shopping (soldes is even better when the prices did not start out at Parisian levels), the swimming pool, and air conditioning. We found all of the above, though getting there (multiple canceled …
Having cancelled our reservations to Ralph’s due to illness on my part, we decided to give Deliveroo a try. The restaurants in our quartier that participate are largely of interest, and we recognized immediately that the service might prove to be dangerous when we confirmed that they deliver foie gras, toasts (I should write a …
The pictures below are not entirely from this past Saturday, but the Saturday before, whereien we hopped back on three horses: we resumed tackling activities on The List, we lifted the moratorium on buying books (which, in hindsight, was probably a bad idea), and we had a very expensive-but-lousy lunch. The item from The List …
We have had a few interesting visitors recently…
Muse played in le fan zone this past Tuesday; we were there.
Fezzik In Paris 