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 […]
To post comments, you can either click on the post heading (here “How to Post Comments”) or (although this is counterintuitive) you can also click on the link that says “no comment” (or “1 comment” if one comment has been posted). Doing either will take you to a page where you can post a comment. The envelope icon doesn’t have anything to do with posting comments. [Updated 3/07 — This […]
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 […]