The boys have been insisting that we go to the Eiffel Tower, which I suppose I can understand, given its status as the one image most likely to pop into your head when you hear “Paris.” So today we decided to get it out of the way (neither Suzie or I were very thrilled about going). So we got up early and got going early, to try to beat the […]
I’ve still two posts to do on our trip to Germany … some very funny things happened there and on the way back … but I’m tired of blogging tonight and want to post what we did today. We eventually got out of the house around 10 (we were tired from our long travel day yesterday). We took the Metro to the Louvre stop, then walked all the way up […]
Before our cow incident (below) we spent the day in Luxembourg. A nice, clean, modern, wealthy city. We had a very nice day in the old part of the city, and walking around the old city walls. We also had a good visit with Suzie’s friend and her family, who were very, very hospitable. The best moment was when we happened in an old church just as someone was practicing […]
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 […]