In case you want to know what it's like to escape to Paris these days
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.…
There is Halloween in Paris Owing to American influence, there are shops with costumes and decorations. In our neighborhood, we haven’t seen kids go door-to-door soliciting candy, though I buy some every year hoping that they’ll catch on. Spooky Halloween decorations cover the common areas of our apartment building. On the streets, they are already…
Bloomsday in Paris and the Origins of the Lilac Bloomsday Run In 1979, my mother-in-law Beth Shaw ran her first Lilac Bloomsday Run in Spokane, Washington. My first time was in 1988. This year is my 27th year of competing in the race. My wife Brenda has done it a couple more times than I.…
The dictionary sums up what most of us know about Bartholdi and his Statue of Liberty. This brief description of a statue by a man we’ve never heard of conveys nothing of the quest and the ideas that produced this phenomenal work of art. The Statue of Liberty: a statue at the entrance to New York…
With current restrictions in Paris on how and why we can leave our apartment, we’ve had to make adjustments in shopping routines, exercise routines, and certainly social routines. For instance, a couple times each week, my wife and I watch a movie together, sort of a date night for people in lockdown. Rather than choosing…