My feature for the SF Chronicle on Chartres and its spiritual charge was read and riffed on by James Martin, travel guru of About.com and…
Showing Paris, Paris — the City of Light-Footed Explorers — to a wonderful gang from many different cities and continents… Yesterday we assaulted the Leaning…
Photo ops abound in Paris, Paris. Sometimes, in the style of Martin Parr, it’s more fun to photograph the photographers than their elusive subject(s). Click,…
Is this where it all started? The Parisian obsession with dogs? Even in the 18th century, when this sculpture was coaxed from purest white marble,…
I’ve always loved carousels — merry-go-rounds to the unregenerate. Think of Hitchcock and “Strangers on a Train”. What could be a more dramatic way to…
More and more spring photos, thousands of words without the effort of reading them! Oh joy! The New Paradigm! Visual and free of cost!! Budding…
More spring photos, each sweetly singing those proverbial thousand words… Prospects are not the only things budding in Paris: there’s forsythia, hyacinth, magnolias, daffodils, camellias,…
Words don’t fail me — but they’re not really needed. It’s early March, that magical time of year in Paris when winter slowly gives way…
Unlikely Discoveries Department: the tea room, restaurant and courtyard terrace of Bonpoint, the chic clothes emporium for kiddies with well-healed parents. The official name is…
Paris is a city of eternal returns. Today the giant annual agricultural fair — Le Salon de l’Agriculture — gets into swing at the Porte…
Serendipitous discovery department: a fascinating exhibition of photographs of Paris in the 1860s, taken by Charles Marville, with contemporary shots of the same streets, (presumably)…
Oddments-and-curiosities-of-life department: my wife can live happily without chocolate, yet she knows more about chocolate than most human beings, and she is a remarkable tour…