As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, there is a strike by railway workers underway here in France and, as with most things French, it’s being conducted in a uniquely French way. The union members–that’s pretty much everybody–don’t want to paralyze the country, so they only walk out a few days each week. And some trains…
Parisians have had an awful winter, but these last two days have been absolutely beautiful with clear skies and afternoon temperatures in the 70s. Almost literally overnight, the trees began leafing out and the natives are out in force to take advantage of the delightful weather. The streets of Paris go off in…
I’m quite comfortable making my own reservations for travel within the U.S or Canada. Europe is a different matter. I’m not going to travel literally halfway around the world at considerable expense only to find my itinerary screwed up because I’ve made an amateur’s mistake. I really want my European travel experience to go smoothly….
For the past few years, as readership of these posts has slowly grown, I have been getting proposals from people and companies wanting to run advertising here. I’ve turned them down, all of them, without a second thought. For one thing, I was uncomfortable with what I felt would be taken as an implied endorsement…