Nice Day
Headed to the eastern fringes of Nice today. Passed a spectacular bakery and hit real estate agents advertising villas where the elite, meet. Check out that mirror glaze. Yowza. And hey, anyone in for a 39 Euro fig tart? Let…
Nice Job
Fall colours. Could be Vermont in October. No, wait, Cote d’Azur on the cusp of Halloween. Go figure. Flight over was perhaps the best ever YVR to Europe; smooth boarding through two skybridges, boarded early, departed early, really efficient…
Without Historical Intent or the Ambition of Exhausting Reality
I read that ludicrous line, “without historical intent…” on a museum explanatory sheet today, about a curator. It’s not that I don’t care about modern art, it’s that I don’t care… Plus, look at that turbine above. That’s some historical…
Natural Wine Disaster
After breakfast we walked uphill past the National Pantheon (which house’s Portugal’s “major historical celebrities” I kid you not, that’s what it is, not a place of worship, and that’s the language used to describe it) to a Saturday market…
All the Styles
A beautiful warm morning in Lisbon. Friday in mid-November so all the tourists are off to the Pena Palace. Why not join them? After breakfast we headed off to Sintra; we walked to the Rossio station where we caught a…
One Room Bright and Neat
We said goodbye to Porto shortly after breakfast. We took a taxi to the train station, about 15 minutes drive, then caught the “express” to Lisbon; three hours centre to centre, a few stops, hit 220 km/h a couple of…
TMI
Wednesday rain. Drizzle, then a lot of drizzle, then wind, then rain and wind, then drizzle again, back and forth and up and down and just consistent enough to make tourism miserable. We walked from the hotel across the…
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
“Can I have it on the good foot?” Woof, what a day for walking this was… Breakfast is included so we had one of those elaborate hotel breakfasts usually served buffet style, but served to us, fruit and fruit juice,…
Alicia Through the Looking Glass
Bright and early out of the hotel to CDG. Terminal train transit two stops to Terminal 2. Checked in at 2F. Boarding pass, processed luggage, went to pass security, then informed I was meant to check-in at 2G. If it’s…
Last Day in the City of Love (and Locks, and Looks)
Sunday I had 2 PM checkout; that’s like adding an extra day to the itinerary, no cost. Had breakfast, packed, then took a long walk to get the steps in. Oberkampf to the Marais is about 20 minutes by…