Wandering France

Journey to the Center of . . .

Posted 21 July 2008 · Author Sabrina

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 17 July 2008 · Author Wandering Man

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 14 July 2008 · Author Wandering Man

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 13 July 2008 · Author Wandering Man

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.

Posted 30 June 2008 · Author Wandering Man