Sunday at the Café Solferino
dated 2007-08-07 | posted in columns | topic Culture | permanent link
Paris… When I told family and friends that we would be spending the summer in Paris, many responded similarly: “Paris is beautiful, but what about the French people?” And I always answered the same way. “I have no problems with ‘The French’.” At least not until last week.
Our saga started last weekend when Don and I decided to have lunch on a Sunday afternoon. With France’s 35- hour work week, cafés typically close on “the d ...
Welcome Home
dated 2007-08-27 | posted in columns | topic Culture | permanent link
After 56 days of murky skies, frigid days and frosty nights, plus more rain in Paris than we had all last winter in Portugal, Don and I packed our clothes, cleaned up the 16th arrondisement apartment we had rented, prepared our two dogs for the long ride home and drove back to Portugal… two and a half weeks earlier than we had intended. Leaving Paris early would have been unthinkable, even heretical for me several years ago. It was my mecca, ...