Posted in Uncategorized on October 30, 2011| 2 Comments »
What’s in a word? An impression, a sound, a scent, an evocation? All of that and more in the word “Indochine” which exists in films and books and calls up tropical heat in fragrant gardens, broad tree-lined boulevards in the formal French manner, (more…)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Those blurs zipping around the base are CARS
My first exposure to traffic in Paris was dizzying, and nowhere more than in the madness zooming around the Etoile, where cars circulate at mad speeds according to rules only divined by those with French blood types. (more…)
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