Author Archives: JJD
Columbus, Ohio
All that work over the weekend was in preparation for a business trip to the midwest. Over the next few days, I will be conducting an audit of a client in Columbus and Indianapolis. Fortunately, today went like a charm. I may dislike working weekends, but I love, love, love having everything go exactly as planned:. I got to work […]
Weekend
Those of you who watched the Masterpiece Classic “Downton Abbey” that aired in January will recall a scene in which the young lawyer (newly heir to the estate and title) discusses his plans for the weekend with the dowager countess (played by Maggie Smith). The countess responds condescendingly sneers “Week end? What is a week end?” Her point, […]
C’est charmant! C’est divin!
A couple of weeks ago I tried to go to the Met’s live broadcast of Le Comte Ory. Alas, I got to the theater only to discover that the blue-hairs had beat me to it: the place was sold out. (Rueful fist shake!) Not to be done out of a chance to hear Juan Diego […]
Chez moi
For my second blog post ever, I will give you a tour of my apartment. I had been meaning to take good pictures of my apartment ever since I finished decorating, and even more since I decided to move to a new apartment — but somehow I’d never gotten around to it. At first I […]
Paris! (three hours in the airport is better than nothing)
My flight home was pleasant. I had had the foresight to give myself a 3.5 hour layover in Paris, so I didn’t have the panicked dash through the terminals that I had last time. In fact, I ended up thoroughly enjoying the layover in the Parisian airport. I walked around the fancy boutiques (Hermes, Louis […]
Croatia – Zagreb
We didn’t actually do that much in Zagreb. We got into town relatively late in the evening, and so pretty much everything was closed. Plus, it was rainy and cold, and we knew that we would have to get up around 4:30am to get me to the airport in time for my flight back to […]
Croatia – Dubrovnik
I am sitting in a dimly (but bright greenly) lit internet cafe in Dubrovnik, on the Dalmatian Coast in Croatia. I have about thirty minutes to write before I have to pay again, which would be fine except that the keyboard is pretty unusual and it is taking me longer to write than normal. For […]
Croatia – Driving Adventures
It’s been great traveling by car during this trip — QN’s little BMW is a nice little car, and I’ve really enjoyed the independence that it’s given us. At first, I admit, I was a little worried that having a car would mean missing out on good travel adventure stories. (Nothing like a van-ful of […]
Croatia – Split
After our grueling hike around the lakes, we headed into Split, a coastal town famous for being the site of Diocletian’s palace — the retirement home of one of the later Roman emperors. He built a giant palace on the shore and, over the centuries, the city grew up around — and in — the […]
Croatia – Plitvice Photos
Map of the park Niko et moi, consultant le plan du parc (on n’arrivait pas a trouver la sortie)
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 