A Stylish Scarf Can Go a Long Way With Parisians
Wednesday, October 13th, 2004: Paris, France Everyone has been commenting on my new scarf and how stylish and popular it is with Parsians. Just luck in the selection, I guess, and of course my strong sense of style. Bob needs and...
Musée d’Orsay: Observing Art, Observing the Observers.
Thursday, October 14th, 2004: Paris, France Today we dawdle through the Musée d’Orsay. Greg enjoyed it more than I did: the crowds on the top floor, where the impressionists hang, made me crazy; I admit that I was tired after...
A Day Off in Gent, Belgium
We take a day off today. We do nothing except relax in the comfortable atmosphere of our hosts’ lovely home. Mid-afternoon I leave John reading and working on the computer, and walk into town for the newspaper and some wine for...
The End of Our European Adventure
We have our 2nd lazy day in a row, enjoying the warmth and comfort of Marc and Yves’ home. It is a wonderful place to be as we come to the end of our European adventure.
Are You Part of the “Lufthansa Group”?
Lufthansa has given us a room in a 5 star hotel with three full meals and use of the room for the full day, until we need to head over to the airport for the flight. We are still boiling mad from their shoddy treatment of us last...
Still Waiting for Lufthansa
The alarm goes at 9:45 – the service technician is arriving at 10 to fix the blinds. I feel better than I should considering how late we danced the night away. Greg is first for waiting today, so he waits, while I go buy more...
Opting Out of Uncomfortable Travel
We told the hotel front desk last night that when the tour came at 7 a.m. this morning to pick us up, they were to say we were unwell and wouldn’t be going. We are both happy and relieved to have cancelled out of our second...
Catching Up with Friends, New and Old in Buenos Aires
While we were in Salta, we discovered that our friend John B. is visiting Buenos Aires, where he was born. This is his first time back since he was 7, when his parents decided that their future didn’t lie in Argentina and...
Gay Pride in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Today is Gay Pride Day in Buenos Aires, and our friends Marcelo and Pablo are coming back into town to share it with us. We walk to the meeting point, and the 4 of us head down into the craziness of Plaza de Mayo, the huge square...
Followsummer Friends Arriving in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Our friends Deirdre and Mark arrive from Chicago today for 10 days of followsummer travel with us in Argentina, including trips to Bariloche and Puerto Madryn. It is a grey day, the streets still wet from an early morning spring...