Half a day of delights
After an uneventful flight (the best kind) we arrived at our hotel in our favourite neighbourhood of Paris: Boulevard St. Germaine. The hotel is next door to our first major…
Rodin and Our Lady
Dec. 8 I realized last night that I needed to date-stamp these myself, so as to keep myself synchronized. This trip we have several evening events planned, so I'm experimenting…
Window-licking (aka window-shopping)
Dec. 9 One cannot go window-licking on an empty stomach, so the first order of the day was lunch. A little cafe (not) had been on our bucket list for…
Strasbourg, Day One
Dec. 10 I guess there's always the possibility of being disappointed with a city the first time you visit, but this was definitely not one of those times. Strasbourg has…
Weekend in Alsace
Dec. 11-13: Wow, time flies when you're having fun! Between getting up early and staying up late, it seems I have let my blogging slip. I'm going to try to…
Eguisheim
Dec. 14 Eguisheim (pronounced, to our surprise, Eggis Hime), is a quintissentially small Alsation town toward the southern end of the sliver of France that is Alsace. To refresh your…
Paris, casually
Dec. 16 One nice thing about traveling independently from a tour group, and returning to a place that we're familiar with, is that we can move at an unhurried pace.…
The Louvre and the Music
Dec. 17 The first time we visited the Louvre, we had one of those great tickets--all the museums you could squeeze into three days in the middle of high tourist…
A Parisian Stroll
The French have a word for it: flaner. Loosely translated, it means to stroll from here to there, unless we decide to detour to somewhere else, and it really doesn't…