Articles
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Rosy-fingered dawn?
Posted · Author Sabrina
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Birding in France
Posted · Author Sabrina
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I must shop!
Posted · Author Sabrina
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Department of the Unexpected?
Posted · Author Sabrina
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Snail Shortage? In France?
Posted · Author Sabrina
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Journey to the Center of . . .
Posted · Author Sabrina
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St. Malo: Kayakers
The colors of St. Malo in Brittany are quite interesting. English channel haze subdues, but add the bright colors of kayaks being dragged from the beach into the water and the contrast is quite compelling…
Posted · Author Wandering Man
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Literary Watering Holes - Paris and Elsewhere
Where have all the literati gone? I miss the beats in North Beach. I wish I could have been in Paris when Henry Miller was making the rounds with his friends and bedbugs.
I’m placing bets on the economic disaster of our times. We like to fork over the public’s money to the rich, who spend it wisely in good economic times, then look to make gambling games out of people’s lives when nobody’s buying (ah, that long gone demand side of the economy), when no reasonably intelligent person would invest in factories and infrastructure…
Posted · Author Wandering Man
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Tour de France Heads into Pau
Many years ago, we headed into the French Pyrenees to escape the heat of a spell that had hit southern Europe.
The strategy didn’t work. It was well over 100 degrees centigrade the two days we spent there. And it didn’t cool off much at night…
Posted · Author Wandering Man
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France Needs to Dumb Down Its Wines
Posted · Author Wandering Man