Suzie’s friend Stacie lives with her husband, a Finn (she is a teacher, he is a translator for the EU), in a village northeast of Luxembourg. It is in the middle of an agricultural area, and there is a working (and wonderfully smelly) farm just at the end of their road. Their house is one of several on a new street, the encroachment of Luxembourgish suburbia into the countryside. It […]
Our first day out of Paris we drove to Luxembourg. On the way, we got off of the autoroute randomly at a town called Chalons en Champagne (sorry I can’t make this make accent marks). This was a pretty, but very down-home, town with half-timbered buildings and what appeared to be a very ancient (somewhat decrepit) church with cool gargoyles. Pictures follow. We found our way to the busiest restaurant […]
We are back in Paris again after what has seemed like a very long trip. We saw a lot and did a lot and had a least one very bizarre thing happen to us. I’m going to break up the excursion into days, just to keep things straight. I’m dead tired after 8 hours of driving (culminating in excruciating stop-and-go traffic in Paris and weirdness in the parking garage of […]
We are headed off this morning to Luxembourg and Germany, returning Sunday, which means that there may not be any posts for a few days. Stay tuned….
Today we experienced clashing museums — the Rodin museum in the morning, the Museum of the Army in the afternoon. The Rodin museum was interesting, set in a lovely large formal garden. Like most good museums, there was really too much to take in in one visit (at least with the boys along) … and that was with part of it being closed because too many of the staff were […]
I just accidentally deleted an entire post I had just drafted, with uploaded pictures to boot. We’re all out of adrenaline, especially Andrew, who didn’t sleep a minute on the plane. So here’s the 10-second version of today: Took the Metro to the Latin Quarter; had an excellent lunch; walked to and toured Notre Dame; had ice cream; took the Metro home; drafted blog; uploaded pictures; deleted the whole thing. […]
We just got back from a very pleasant walk around the neighborhood. The apartment is about 150 yards from the Seine, and there is a pedestrian walkway right at the end of our street that takes you over to an island in the Seine that has a park and a museum on it and, in the area we were, no cars. Lots of people and dogs and kids enjoying a […]
I had heard, but forgotten, that keyboards aren’t universal. The one I’m using now is not a standard “querty” keyboard. The A is where the Q should be, the Q is where the A should be, the comma is where the M should be, and most weirdly, the period is where the comma should be, but you have to shift to make it. I reset the computer settings to make […]
We had a completely uneventful trip (plane on time, no hassles) except for a couple of things. First, my mom, with the bionic knee, set off the alarms at security and so had to undergo a complete personalized screening. When we arrived in Paris, the French family staying in our house had arranged for a shuttle to meet us at the airport. It was about 30 minutes late, and when […]
Suzie and I are following the “Jet Lag Diet” supposedly developed by the Argonne National Laboratory to ameliorate the effects of jet lag. It involves a day of “feasting” (high protein breakfast and lunch, high carbo dinner) followed by a day of fasting (no more than 400-700 calories a day), then feasting, then fasting on the travel day, and beginning a “feast” day at the time it’s breakfast time at […]