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April and May in Paris: Chill Rhymes with Thrill. The Bagatelle!
Bagatelle: Racy Sphinx, circa 1777 In Paris, in the spring, chill rhymes with thrill–or is it the other way around? Right now it's about 50 degrees Fahrenheit–maybe 10 Celcius. People are shivering as they sip hot cocoa or coffee or wine–no, not mulled wine, it's no longer fall or winter, after all. In April ...
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Paris to the Pyrenees on West Coast Live in SF
We’re still on book tour for Paris to the Pyrenees, just arrived in the Bay Area, where it’s scorching hot in more ways than one. From the moment we drove the rental car the wrong way out of Oakland airport and, mistakenly or by divine design, rolled Bonfire of the Vanities-style into one of the ...
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Paris to the Pyrenees: Book Tour Schedule April/May 2013
Updated May 2, 2013: exciting new radio-book event added to schedule! See below!! Please come to one of the many events organized on both coasts to mark the publication on April 15, 2013 of Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James. “Evocative and moving… an extraordinary account ...
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Paris to the Pyrenees, Jacki Lyden, NPR and Weekend Edition Sunday
“An entertaining read… fabulous company!”—Jacki Lyden, NPR All Things Considered Friends, family and others not yet known to this writer were stunned yesterday, Sunday, April 14, 2013 as they prepared dinner, cleaned the house, drove home from the tailgate party, or ran with their iPhones plugged into their ears: who was that odd fellow ...
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Paris to the Pyrenees: Video Crossing of Paris on the Pilgrim Route then All the Way Across France
The other day Alison and I walked the pilgrimage route — Rue Saint Jacques — across Paris again, this time with cameras and tape recorders in hand. Here's a short video about the start of our journey in Paris… and the 1,100 km we walked from Vezelay to Spain over the Pyrenees. Click ...
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Paris to the Pyrenees, Ancient Gaul, and Vercingetorix the Chief
Anyone who thinks the modern French are not still obsessed by the tragiheroic figure of Vercingetorix ought to think again. This is the guy who rallied the Gallic tribes against Julius Caesar–yes, they were a bunch of tribes who, like Native Americans, tried to resist the Roman invasion. Vercingetorix's last stand actually started at ...
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BonjourParis.com, Janet Hulstrand reviews Paris to the Pyrenees
It's not often that I share a lede and link to a review of one of my books, but this one is so outstanding that I must. Janet Hulstrand, a writer and teacher, totally "gets" the book, and expresses herself so well that she ought to consider writing Volume Two of Paris to the ...
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Vezelay, Mary Magdalene, Hedonism and Pilgrimage
If you've been following this blog you know that when Alison Harris and I set out to cross France we started in Vezelay (well, we started in Paris, but really got to serious walking in Vezelay, which has an accent over the first "e"). My latest column for Gadling.com is about a recent ...
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Autun Cathedral, Paris to the Pyrenees, and Longitude Books Blog
Longitude Books is a specialized site with just about every book ever published in the field of travel, including historical accounts such as my fave, The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar. I just contributed a column as guest blogger on the Longitude Blog. The question was, could I describe one of the ...
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Pope Sends Red Shoes to Paris: A Celebration of Paris to the Pyrenees
This just in from APF, amazing! How did they get onto this so fast?–David and Alison APR, Paris: Pope Benedict XVI Gives the Gift of Scarlet–not the sash of a cardinal, but his red slippers. The pope's unexpected gift was reportedly sent to a little-known mystic described variously as a "saintly woman" and ...
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Classicist, Art Historian Andrew Riggsby Endorses Paris to the Pyrenees
Andrew Riggsby, Professor of Classics and Art History at The University of Texas, Austin is an expert on Rome and Roman history (among the many other furrows he follows in the fertile field of art history and classical studies). We have never met. Andrew contacted me some years ago after reading one of my ...
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National Geographic Traveler and Paris to the Pyrenees: Review by Don George
Yours truly checking out the hunters' blinds about a third of the way up the Pyrenees. Photo: copyright Alison Harris "Pleased" is understatement: I am delighted that Don George, one of the great travel experts and writers now working in America, has reviewed Paris to the Pyrenees, choosing my quirky effort as his book of ...