Monday’s failure began on Friday evening. While we had originally planned an expedition to the Musée des arts forains, I found, while double-checking the website, that while the museum normally had a reservation-free, just-show-up period between Christmas and the new year (throughout most of the year, it’s Monday or Tuesday only, reservations required, subject to …
It’s small and it’s very late (said trip to les Invalides occurred not this past Saturday but the Saturday before), but I feel that remaining steadfastly slothful is the best way of demonstrating my commitment to enjoying my two weeks off.
Since it was Christmas, a friend of mine came over to help bake an enormous batch of cookies. We made fluffy snickerdoodles, brown-butter chocolate chip cookies, raspberry roll-ups (that ended up looking more like brains, but a little silver powder fixed it), and some of Geep’s favorite peanut butter kiss cookies. The smell of baking …
Last Friday evening (yes, I am behind, thanks for asking) we went in search of Joseph Ducreux at the Louvre. We were not successful, though we continue to find whole sections of the museum that we’ve somehow missed on our previous visits. Saturday we headed to the petit palais for Paper Tigers, only to discover that …
He’s in town for COP21.
I aspire to one day be as content as this cat (it’s been cold, so we recently turned the radiators on).
Eleven people, three cats, and 49 square meters of apartment space: we’ll see how this goes.
It would be reasonable to argue that Saturday’s expedition was perhaps not our finest weekend, but while it fell short of the good idea mark, it did not fall so short as to earn the classification of “dumb idea of the week.” Our primary foe was the weather; the past few days have brought with …
Last Friday’s display of barbarism cast a pall over our trip to Athens, and even now, a week later, I find that my thoughts are still scattered. I like to think that we’ll go back, that we’ll eventually climb the Acropolis again, and that next time, I’ll be armed with scopolamine, so we’ll take a …
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.
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