Refreshed after a long night of sleep, we headed down to the hotel’s complimentary breakfast buffet as soon as it opened. Our game plan for the morning was a 15-minute walk south to visit Wat Pathum Wanaram Rachaworawihan before the day’s festivities. From our previous research, the temple should have held nothing of real interest…
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The heat is on…
The French term terroir was originally used to describe the environmental factors that affected the outcome of wine grapes, whether it was the vintner’s farming practices, the composition of the soil, the climate, or a whole host of other determinants. The concept has spilled over into other fields (forgive the pun), most notably, the culinary….
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Travel Tips (2015)
Avoid visiting Rome and Paris in August as many of the residents (shopkeepers and restaurant owners) go on vacation during the month; their shops and restaurants may be closed. Be cognizant of your surroundings and belongings while at major train stations in Europe, like Termini Station in Rome or Gare de Lyon in Paris. For…
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F Your Diet (France)!
Say What (French)?
FrankFART airport…
We made it as easy as possible for ourselves. The trip would be ending. We would be torn between leaving Europe and seeing our furkids again. We (Ok, I) would be unfocused melodramatic queens. All we had do after arriving at the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (Frankfurt train station) from Paris was to catch a second local…
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Leave a reason to return…
Despite my misperceptions of the city, Paris still held an undeniable allure. The two and half days we had devoted to seeing the sights was nowhere near enough; it was the sheer immensity and variety of attractions of the French capital. The arrondissements (“districts”) of the City of Light, twenty in all back in 2015,…
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Trompe-l’œil (“Deceive the eye”)…
The aim of the artistic technique of Trompe-l’œil is to deceive. Realistic imagery is used to create the illusion that objects exist in three dimensions. Much the same way that the romantic books and movies about Paris, the City of Light, beguiled me into an idealized image of the famous Capital.
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Raison d’etre (“Reason for being”)…
We had three reasons why we chose Avignon. The First, it was on the very western edge of Provence and could perhaps offer us a different flavor of the region. For almost seventy years, 1309 – 1377, the city was the home to a succession of popes; a veritable Vatican of France. Surely, there would…
