This is the second time that I have been a victim of pickpocketing within a year! Once is already enough! This last time occurred after buying a ticket at the machine in Cité Universitaire RER rail station using my credit/debit card. Last Monday, Paris was still covered in snow as I scrambled in haste to …
You know what I really like to do in Budapest when it’s so blasted cold? Stay submerged up to my chin in bubbling hot thermal waters. With the steam rising off the waters, it creates a thick swirling mist that envelops my head and I feel transported to an ethereal calm of well-being, I always …
Here I am again with open arms embracing the Queen of the Danube for a few days. I guess you might find it strange that I am trading one snowy European capital for another, as if Paris is not not cold enough! Actually I was there about the same time last year, and despite the …
As an outsider and an American observer, I just had to roll my eyes and scratch my head over the recent protest march against a proposed law enabling homosexual marriage last weekend. Throngs of French citizens clogged the routes of Paris as they marched towards the Eiffel Tower, interrupting several bus lines and metro stops. …
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As you might guess from the my title, I am not much of a fan of New Year’s resolutions. Not because they aren’t made in all sincerity. Most of the time they are! It is just they are by nature inviting resistance from the very people who made them! You! You might ask, but how …