It’s the little things that remind us who we are. Yesterday was my day to explore Bourges, population 64,000, and I started out nice and early. First, since I’d learned…
It seems there were no architects before the 18th century. That isn’t quite true, but in going about France and Switzerland looking at buildings, it is starting in the 1700s…
Montmartre at the Place du Tertre is a little bohemian bubble in time. Though people do live here, it must cost a fortune. In my neighborhood, South Pigalle in the…
For once, limits and reason won over ideals and conquest. My plan had been to visit two hot springs today, this and another far more remote. But I suddenly decided…