This week we spent four days in Paris, certainly our last visit to the city on this trip. We’ve been coming to Paris for many years - our first time in the city was in 1983 when we did two day-trips while we were staying with Mary and Gilles in Chartrettes. Our first stay in the city, probably four or...

I haven’t taken a lot of pictures of food here, because I’m not 100% ok with pulling out a phone and taking pictures in a nice restaurant. But I’ve been talked into posting the food pix I have so here they are. You’ll notice that they lean to the dessert side…

I’ve often claimed that we’re not great fans of modern art - that it too often leaves us scratching our heads and wondering about what we were seeing. Over the last few years we’ve come to appreciate some modern art: outdoor sculptures and murals and paintings (and Banksy), and we’ve always liked what Cristo and Jeanne-Claude (his wife) created: “…site-specific...