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Grand Larceny

25 Friday May 2018

Posted by Tom in Travel

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grand larceny

We’ve been contemplating Grand Larceny lately.

How’s this: We could take an out-of-state debit card into a California Safeway, buy $400 worth of whiskey (and maybe get $100 cash back), then sell the whiskey out on the streets. After that, hit another Safeway. Then another. Maybe a Walmart too. And a Walgreen’s. (In California, all these stores sell liquor.)

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A Fish on a Bicycle

18 Friday May 2018

Posted by Tom in Travel

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Dublin, Guinness, ireland

ireland guinness tour

Some people live to visit Jerusalem. Others, the Blarney Stone. Me? The St. James’s Gate Guinness Brewery in Dublin.

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20,000 Leagues and Eight Squirrels

14 Monday May 2018

Posted by Tom in Travel

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Amiens, Jules Verne, Paris

amiens poster

Let’s get one thing straight: a “league” is a not a measure of depth. A league is equal to three miles. As Jules Verne would have it, twenty thousand leagues was a measure of horizontal distance under the sea, a journey that would’ve gone on longer had Kirk Douglas not interfered.

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Wires and Wheels

07 Monday May 2018

Posted by Tom in Travel

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“I wish you a good vacation. Take advantage of it, and take good care of yourselves. Most of all be wise about not taking on too many challenges.” Such was the advice from our host Sandrine Gailliot-Sopena in an email sent following our tour of Paris aboard her tiny electric scooters.

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Misbehavin’

29 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by Tom in Travel

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frexinet ice

I’m afraid we misbehaved a bit last night.

We’re back in Paris, almost a year to the day after the most recent post in this blog. It has been a busy year, but not one that has much of anything with expatting, so the blog has been quiet. With today’s entry, it returns.

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Boots on the Ground?

06 Saturday May 2017

Posted by Tom in Travel

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Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during an election campaign rally. (Frederic Scheiber/EPA)

 

I know, I know: we promised boots-on-the-ground election coverage from Paris, yet now that we’ve been here over a week — no news has been forthcoming.

There’s a reason for that. There’s not much to tell you about.

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No Fake News

24 Monday Apr 2017

Posted by Tom in Travel

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Election, France

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A year has passed, and we’re about to return to Paris. Tomorrow, in fact. It’s going to be a pivotal time in the City of Light—indeed, in the entire country—as France will be holding a runoff election May 7th. We’ll be there.

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A Long Day’s Journey Into the … Day

05 Thursday May 2016

Posted by Tom in Travel

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Paris, Portland

fly into sunset

8:00 AM → 8:00 PM. Twelve hours, right?

Wrong.

It’s actually 21 hours, given the nine-hour time difference between Paris and Portland. Twenty-one hours, and it never got dark.

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The Garden of Hedon(ism)

03 Tuesday May 2016

Posted by Tom in Accommodations

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Girona, Girona Llegendes Hotel, TGV

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We depart the Gare de Lyon with all the fanfare of a taxi departing a stoplight. A quiet and really fast taxi. But unlike any taxi I’ve ever known, and even though the Gare de Lyon is Paris’s central train station, we’re out of the city and watching grazing sheep on grassy knolls before we’ve even removed our coats.

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The Perfect Parisian Day

20 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by Tom in Gallery, Travel

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#69 bus, Eiffel Tower, Paris

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Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Click for extreme enlargement with landmarks.

Yesterday was a perfect day … as perfect as a day gets. It helps, of course, to have spent it in Paris.

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