Another holiday is coming up, which means that the good seasonal candy is starting to become available. Chez Fezzik in Paris, that means boxes of white chocolate snails and hippos. Dreamy chocolate hippos.
Another holiday is coming up, which means that the good seasonal candy is starting to become available. Chez Fezzik in Paris, that means boxes of white chocolate snails and hippos. Dreamy chocolate hippos.
Earlier this week, the Purrito came up to La Défense to eat lunch with me (and go to Auchan and Cultura and…). We ended up sharing some of her bread with the local pigeons… …and watching as they all exited stage right after a juvenile hawk perched on the ledge of a nearby roof.
This post should be about our trip to Rome, but it is not; with some 500 photographs to sort through (and knowing that I’ll post between 5 and 10% of them) and process, I’m nowhere near ready to post. I should hit Publish and then delve into lightroom for the next couple of hours, but …
While reading a post on the Expatriates in Paris Facebook group a couple of months ago, I engaged in a fit of poor judgement; seeing a banner ad proclaiming that Oktoberfest was, finally, coming to Paris, I clicked, noticed that tickets seemed to be rapidly selling out, said “what the hell,” and paid for two …
These are from our brief excursion to the Champs-Élysées for last Sunday’s Paris sans voiture (yes, I am behind on the blogging). There were far more people than either of us had thought, but I was still amused at imagining the meltdowns that would occur if something of this nature was done in Houston. Because …
I’m still processing the full magnitude of the failure of this weekend’s Plan (and I already have a draft of this post written), so I’m going to write about last weekend. We took a much-needed rest and more or less hid from the world (though sadly not from the cats, bounding bastards that they currently …
It is not uncommon to hear music in stores when shopping in the US, but in France, you only really hear it in larger stores and some of the smaller hipster shops. Usually, it is the ordinary american top 40 stuff you hear, but occasionally they throw caution into the wind and hope no one …
This morning I found myself going through various files on my Surface in anticipation of upgrading it to Windows 10. I wrote a draft of this post on the fifth of August 2014; with the exception of the Paris Plages story (and the lack of a mention of overcrowding on the metro; the RER A is currently …
Today is a uniquely Parisian brand of beautiful day. In many places, days like these would be cast off as miserable or dreary, but Paris seems to lay down and purr when they happen. A soft rain has glazed the sidewalks in an early morning shower, allowing cozy gray clouds to blanket the city. The …
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