Two exhibits have been on The List since late last year; Fêtes et divertissements à la Cour, at the château de Versailles, and Amazones de la révolution at musée Lambinet in municipal Versailles. For various reasons relating to the weather, health, the vagaries of reality, or the universe simply hating us, we have yet to …
Wednesday morning was a shitshow. It was all the more surreal when, arriving at a doctor’s appointment, I stood there with the receptionists, slack-jawed, as a snippet of the victory speech came on. Perhaps sensing that the hospital was grinding to a halt, whomever runs the TV system cut back to one of the fluffy “Come …
How popular can a video game show in Paris possibly be? It won’t be nearly as bad as the salon de l’agriculture. When I’m wrong, I’m very wrong. On the other hand, the lines on Sunday were perfect incentive to head back home, do a bit of grocery shopping, and then play a bit of Gears …
This weekend’s visit to Melun was entirely my fault. We had been discussing going to Vaux-le-Vicomte for a while, thus leading to the inevitable scope creep; see Vaux-le-Vicomte became spend the day at Vaux-le-Vicomte, which morphed into see one of the soirées aux chandelles at Vaux-le-Vicomte , which became stay near Vaux-le-Vicomte so we wouldn’t …
In a (perhaps not-so) rare occurrence of indecision, I’m not entirely sure as to what my actual opinion is with regards to last week’s trip to Mykonos. Accompanied by Pierre, our Greek island adventure occasionally felt much more like a study in dipoles than in consistency: While the view from the villa was outstanding, the …
Strictly speaking, it is not the fault of Lenovo that I am sitting here, some two hours later, attempting to salvage my over-30-gigabyte Lightroom library while wondering if I am going to be able to recover anything else from the HDD of my former Y510p. I would argue that it is Lenovo’s fault that I …
I should know by now that when I am trying to travel somewhere faster (for purposes of this example, let’s say work) due to some mitigating circumstance (because it’s pouring), I should just stick with the original plan. Normally, one would think that taking a taxi from l’hopital americain would be painless; it’s all of …
Sometimes we fuck up. Tonight was such a night; it is why I am sitting in our flat listening to the funeral march of Louis XIV as opposed to sitting in the Chapelle royale at Versailles listening to the requiem for Louis XV. Oops.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, violating our usual rule regarding never going anywhere near the Champs-Élysées proved to be a bad decision; between the crowd (to be expected), the weird carnival (complete with a Thriller haunted house that had been christmasized by draping the zombies in Santa suits) and the massive number of vendors selling exactly the same …
Greece, it seems, was not meant to happen for us. After initially booking the trip in early April, the Purrito was forced to spend what felt like an inordinate amount of time and effort to re-book the trip once we decided that we’d like to stay another day; the vagaries of Expedia and non-instantaneous hotel …
Fezzik In Paris 