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In late April Brenda and I walked a 12 kilometer course in Paris to complete Virtual Bloomsday. It was our version of the annual 12 kilometer road race held in Spokane the first Sunday in May. We wrote about our doing this same thing five years ago (https://muchadoaboutparis.com/bloomsday-in-paris/). On that occasion we followed a course…
The fate of our Paris Olympic experience was always in question. It was widely known that Parisians would be leaving town. The games were taking place during the traditional summer holidays, when all the beautiful people normally leave. Only the workers and the tourists would remain, and this year there would be many of each.…
The other day I was trying to install a new theme on our website. The new theme, created for someone starting from scratch, included a few dummy posts so that the purchaser could see how it presented information. So me…I installed the new theme and then the sample entries, thinking that I could delete them…
Planning the trip to Auvers-sur-Oise Earlier this week Brenda and I made a day trip to Auvers-sur-Oise, the burial site of Vincent Van Gogh. It was our first trip on a train outside of Paris in a couple years, and in the interim, the French national train network SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer…
Maybe because I’m 70 years old, I jumped at the first chance I had to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. Even better, I received the version from Johnson and Johnson, not only a trusted brand for floor wax (actually that’s SC Johnson – not the same), but also a vaccine that needed only one shot. I…
Remember when the TV would occasionally show a screen saying that they were having technical difficulties? We had a few technical difficulties in Paris in 2020. Looking back, I have plenty of things to be thankful for. I’m not among those who suffered because of health problems or financial loss. The regulatory regime was a…
