We spent most of Wednesday at the Lourve. It took us six hours to see a tiny fraction of what’s there. I focused on older stuff, because I find that more interesting that froo-froo 18th century neo-classical French stuff (sorry if I’ve offended anybody). So the boys and I spent most of our time in the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Medieval sections. Those sections weren’t too crowded, but parts of it […]
and Dad forces us to pose in front of a naked guy. Thanks, Dad.
Catching up again. Our visit to Freudenstadt was mostly very pleasant, but was marred by someone vandalising the car we were borrowing from our French family. Someone put a long dent (but somehow, didn’t scratch the paint) on the passenger side. When we saw it we were sick about it, and remained that way for 3-4 days. Fortunately the French family was very good about it; they said that it […]
I’m exhausted after a day at the Louvre and an evening out (just me and Suzie) in the Marais, all of which will be described in a later post. But I wanted to share a picture of the boys on a street we happened across during our search for a good lunch spot: Rue des Bons Enfants. Street of the Good Children. (I think this was a bit of a […]
We’ve been doing such long days here that it’s been difficult for me to catch up on posts regarding the side trip we took. So I thought I’d briefly hit the remaining highlights and lowlights. Last Friday we drove from Luxembourg to Freudenstadt in the Black Forest in Germany. En route we stopped in Strasbourg, which was very, very beautiful. Right in the middle of the old part of the […]
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 […]