All Entries Tagged With: "Paris"
He went to Paris
View from Mr. DJ’s hotel room. Photo by Mr. DJ on his Blackberry Pearl. Yeah, he’s in Paris without me. He did invite me, but I’ll tell you tomorrow why I didn’t go. Meanwhile, Mama DJ is here for a little visit and to keep Roxi company tonight while I go do that thing I [...]
Aunt J is on her way back home
Purple berries in St. James’s Park. Neither of us have ever seen berries of this sort before. Mr. DJ is driving Aunt J to the airport as I type. We hope that she’ll come visit us again in the Spring. It’ll still be cold, but at least the flowers will be in bloom. And next [...]
Prague: Beautiful but watch your back and wear your money belt!
St. John of Nepomuk on the Charles Bridge, Prague. It is said that if you rub the plaque beneath the statue, you’ll get a wish. One wish per person, per lifetime, please. I’ve been letting our Prague vacation simmer in my brain for a while hoping I would get some inspiration on what to tell [...]
Aiguille du Midi and the Château in the middle of nowhere
Well, finally, we come to the end of our trip to France last August. . We woke up at 5:30 am to get ready for the first lift on our last day in Chamonix. Unfortunately, when we got there, they had cancelled the early lift because of bad weather. No problem, we had breakfast at [...]
Les Misérables
The curtain. Blackberry Pearl. Wow, what an intense show. It always amazes me how actors can sustain the kind of energy needed for a musical like this. They had a pretty big cast, maybe about 30 people–huge voices, big lungs. The multiple costume changes for the chorus must mean someone backstage is VERY organized. Cool [...]
On the ferry and our first glimpse of France
We woke up at 5:30 am, guzzled some coffee, and loaded up the car. We had reservations to go on the 10:50 am ferry from Dover. Since we didn’t know what the traffic would be like driving out there, we left before 7:00 am just to be sure. It took us just over two hours [...]
Bath Abbey, England
Three churches have been built on the site of Bath Abbey: an Anglo-Saxon Abbey (757), a large Norman cathedral (1090, which later fell into ruin), and finally the current Abbey (1499, which also fell into ruin after the dissolution of monasteries by our pal Henry VIII in 1539). Today, it is a parish church for [...]
Moleskine City Guide
New Moleskine, Jan 2007, Canon Digital Rebel XT For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one he himself has written. –Aldous Huxley (I found this inside my London City Guide) Indulge me for a moment while I tell you about my most recent journal [...]
