Category Travel
Paris, Day 4 – The Artist
After our Thanksgiving dinner, we headed over to the nearest artsy cinema to see the new film The Artist. It’s a perfectly delightful movie, a tale that evoked both Singing in the Rain and Sunset Boulevard. Also, it’s silent, black-and-white, and French. I loved it. The glowing reviews I’d read in the New Yorker and the New York Times were […]
Paris, Day 4 – Le Louvre (highlights)
Visiting the Louvre is like an ant drinking from a firehose — the quantity and quality of the masterpieces is overwhelming. You could easily spend weeks in there. (And if you don’t bring a map with you, you might never get out.) Fortunately, Amanda and I had each “done the Louvre” during previous trips, so we […]
Paris, Day 4 – Deportation Memorial
In honor of the 200,000+ French Jews who were deported and killed during the second world war.
Paris, Day 4 – Sainte-Chapelle
The Saint Chapelle is one of my favorite places in Paris. Tucked away in the old castle complex on the Ile de la Cite, it was built in the 13th century and is where the royal family would go to church. You wouldn’t think anything of it from the exterior; the interior is mindblowing. Upper chapel Lower […]
Paris, Day 4 – Yellow Pants!
I saw men wearing purple, green and orange pants (in addition to the ubiquitous black, blue and brown), but as far as I could tell, I was the only one in yellow today! Amanda said they made it much easier to pick me out in a crowd…
A Moveable Feast (or Thanksgiving in Paris)
Ernest Hemingway called Paris a moveable feast — and on this American day of feasting, that’s exactly what it was for me (only Paris wasn’t actually moving, it was I who moved from feast to feast…). We started out with breakfast chez Paul. We had missed breakfast the past few days, in part due to our schedule, […]
Paris, Day 3 – Le Musee Rodin
The Musee Rodin is one of my favorite places in Paris. The grounds are beautiful and the artwork wonderfully curated. His sculptures have a humanity and emotional poignance that touch me the way no other sculpture does — I feel like I’m witnessing creation when I look at his work. Les six bourgeois de Calais For those […]
Paris, Day 2 – Movie: Twilight Breaking Dawn
As per tradition when traveling abroad, Amanda and I made sure to see a bad American movie. This time it was the latest episode of the Twilight saga. In the US, it’s called Breaking Dawn. Here, it’s called Revelation. It had better directing than the earlier movies, but still awful makeup and questionable acting…
Paris, Day 2 – Dinner at Le Procope
Le Procope, which was founded in 1686, claims to be the oldest cafe in Paris. The interior is pretty and the food was pretty good (not outstanding, but certainly decent). Plus, it was conveniently close to the movie theater… Le Procope Gratinee a l’oignon Magret de canard a l’orange Pommes de terre gaufrees […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 