European Adventure

My Paris Apartment

5 October 2009

My apartment is a little quirky. It’s centrally located, so I can walk everywhere, but it is fairly expensive—for me, not for Paris—so it’ll work for a couple of months, but not for much longer. It’s a fairly large studio in an older building, though not a historic one. I can see one of those […]

Read the full article →

Alsace, Oktoberfest, and the Alps

27 September 2009

A friend of mine who is on a Europe trip of her own came through Paris last week. She spent several days with me here, doing some of those touristy things I hadn’t done yet, like the boat tour on the Seine, the top of the Eiffel Tower, visiting the famous people buried at the […]

Read the full article →

Parlez-vous Francais?

20 September 2009

Moi, oui. Sort of. Two weeks’ worth of French lessons have greatly improved my capacity to speak and understand. Alas, my last day of lessons has come and gone, and I was just feeling as if I was getting the hang of it. Unfortunately, the lessons are expensive, and there are so many other things […]

Read the full article →

Museum Madness

17 September 2009

Paris has so many museums and monuments, I think I’d have to be here for a year to see them all. However, in five days of doing nothing but visiting museums and monuments (and taking French lessons in between), I managed to make a significant dent in my list of things to see. The Paris […]

Read the full article →

An American in Paris

5 September 2009

With apologies to Gene Kelly… Still, all of the romance and drama, from the movie and from every myth, story and stereotype about Paris are true! Paris, je t’aime! My arrival in France was completely uneventful, much to my relief–or chagrin, as I had expected to be hassled over my one-way ticket and so armed […]

Read the full article →

Next Entries →