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.…
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…
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…
Both in France and in the United States, we seem to be in the worst of the COVID-19 problem now. There are shortages of equipment, rising numbers of deaths and infected, new outbreaks, and no quick fix on the horizon. We continue to be inundated with non-stop news, most of it bad. I’ve discovered that…
2019 was our seventh year in France, the last year of the decade, our 30th wedding anniversary, each of our 50th high school reunions, the 50th anniversary of my swearing in at the Naval Academy, the 30th anniversary of my taking command of USS Buffalo (SSN-715), the 50th anniversary of Woodstock and the moon landing,…