Simple Pleasures . . . in Bordeaux

 Yesterday’s lunch, eaten in the Bordeaux sunshine — Salade Landaise, which seems even better than the Salade Auvergnate I usually order. If you’re a vegetarian, you won’t be impressed, obviously, nor will you be if…

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Running in Paris (and some What I Wore, NOT for running!)

We’re heading off to Bordeaux this (Friday)morning, where we will be meeting Lesley from the charming, lively, thoughtful (if sporadic) Peregrinations (the title and subtitle alone indicate the quality of word-smithing that goes on here). Meanwhile,…

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Les Vitrines de Paris . . . Windows, windows . . .

I promised you Paris windows, and I’m quite proud to deliver this beauty: this is the Hermès window in St. Germain. Whimsy on a grand scale! and more whimsy a few blocks away in the…

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Light Reading and Not so Light . . .

You know I struggle to keep up my reading record at the best of times, but it’s even tougher to do so on holiday. Still, before titles are lost to the mists of bad memory,…

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Parisian chic, of a certain age . . .

I can’t imagine what nerve one has to muster to ask strangers if it’s okay to photograph them for one’s blog. I don’t think I could do it. Instead, I pretended I was immensely interested…

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