Author Wandering Man
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Civilized Medicine
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The Perils of Paris: Dog Poop and Killer Apes
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Live From Colmar, France
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Ariège Pyrenees: Beautiful Are the Thatched Roofs
One of the reasons to visit Europe, and France in particular, is the many examples of beautiful vernacular architecture that one can admire—from easily disassembled half-timbered houses to stone cottages with thatched roofs…
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Vin de Merde Flying Off the Shelves in France
Yup, “crap wine” from Languedoc is selling well in France. Bottles labeled Vin de Merde are flying off the shelves. Don’t get hit by one…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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France Needs to Dumb Down Its Wines
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Know Where to See the First Laptop?
According to the ParisDailyPhoto, a really nice blog with lots of photos of Paris annotated in English, you must get yourself to the top of the big arch of La Défense.
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