Month: March 2014

Tasting Great Wines Requires Restraint and Discipline

Here I am again, in the middle of beautiful wines, that I can’t drink!  I have to go armed with much restraint and discipline if I am going to get though my long list of wines that I want to taste at the spring Salon des Vignerons Independants. Tasting and drinking are two different things! …

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Chateau Chamarande is A Hidden Jewel Near Paris

I had been intrigued several times by this lovely château, having had only quick glimpses of part of her facade through the window of a suburban train heading south of Paris.  From afar, the images were striking and searing, if only for a second in passing,  and each time managed to aroused my imagination. It …

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Sunday by the Sea in Étretat

Waking up to a brilliant blue sky, especially on a warm sunny Sunday morning,  I found myself longing for the sea; the smells of the salty air, the blue green hues of the ocean, and the squawking of the sea gulls.   Since Paris is only about 2 hours away by car to the beautiful …

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Suicide Is Never The Answer

It was a quiet sunny Sunday morning, with a full roster of patients, when the charge nurse on the adult ward, told me that one of the patients was missing, and that had left  a suicide note.  Fearing the worse, I reporting her missing to  the police and immediately ordered the locking down of the …

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Skiing Drunks In The Alps

If avalanches weren’t bad enough, now you have to be on the lookout for drunk skiers!  According to ski patrol monitors in Austria and in France,  there is a growing problem of dodging inebriated skiers. We already know the dangers of driving a car , flying an airplane , or piloting a boat under the …

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