Credit to Wikipedia for the information in this post about April Fool’s Day in Paris. In France as in Belgium and Italy, children and adults traditionally tack paper fishes on each other’s back as a trick and shout “April fish!” (in French. “poisson d’avril!”). Such fish feature prominently on many late 19th to early 20th […]
Paris Chocolate Tour!
Paris is the capital of dark chocolate! Recently we were lucky enough to go on a Paris chocolate tour. In order for the stuff to be labeled chocolate in France it has to have 70% or more cocao content. (Hershey kisses only have 7%!) I love milk chocolate,( only 30% cocao plus milk solids) especially when […]
Some Comments about the French Economy
We are here struggling to learn the language and understand French on the TV. We have no close contacts who keep us in tune with the pulse of the French economy. Everything seems OK to us living inside this bubble of foreignness. The French people have personally been wonderful to us. Still we are aware […]
Holocaust in Paris
Holocaust in Paris Monday started the Jewish celebration of Passover, the religious holidays that commemorate the portion of Exodus where God spares (passes over) the Israelite first born sons and kills the first born sons of Egypt as what you might call a last straw to convince the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from from […]
New Bells Chime With Modern Pitch At Notre Dame Cathedral
Palm Sunday was to be the first ringing of the new church bells at Notre Dame, and I awoke about 8 am to a magnificent new sound. I hurriedly dressed and went outside to try to capture the music, but the bells quit tolling for me, so to speak. I caught the tail end of […]
Our neighborhood
I can’t get you much closer to our Paris apartment than this. Here’s the Google street view right outside. No we don’t own a motorcycle. View Larger Map
