Tonight I spend my last night at the apartment on rue du Dragon, a block away from Saint-Germain-des-Pres in the 6th Arrondissement on the Left Bank. This secluded one-bedroom apartment, with its full kitchen/dining room and expansive living room––featuring a fireplace and an entire wall of French windows, graced by full-length drapes the same [...]
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Paris: rue du Dragon
November 21, 2008
Paris: Viva La France!
November 15, 2008
Arrived yesterday. . . My friend Pat wrote today: “You picked the ideal time to be an American in Paris.” Now that we have elected “President Obama,” in France––as I found in Spain––Americans are back in favor. I guess we don’t seem so hopeless (read: stupid) after all. A couple of interesting developments: [...]
