We visited Versailles today and in so doing filled a conspicuous gap in my exposure to French culture.  For all the time I’ve spent living and traveling in France, I had never been to Versailles.  During previous trips to Paris I’d either been otherwise engaged (for example, in tracking down Martinicans to interview for a […]

Pont du Caroussel; the Louvre is on the left Pont Neuf and Ile de la Cite Institut Francais Locks on the bridge  Lychees always make me think of eyeballs and/or brains  Eglise St. Eustache  Centre Pompidou   Look what I can see! And look, it’s a roving spotlight…

The key to overcoming jet lag is to force yourself to operate on local time as soon as you arrive.  So instead of going to bed at the unheard-of hour of 8:30pm (as my body very much wants to do), I’ll post a few pictures from today. We arrived safe and sound in Paris around […]

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 […]