Yesterday—Sunday—the streets of Paris were free of the typical brutal traffic. “The car-free day comes as the city wrestles with an air pollution problem that has led the city to experiment with a number of policies to clean up the air, including turning policies to make the city more friendly for pedestrians and cyclists.” As […]
Along the Wine Route
Beautiful day and sky in Cote de Beaune. Lunch in Puligny-Montrechet, where we had visited about 5 years ago when we were on a Butterfield & Robinson bike trip. Driving or biking is spectacular through the Grand Cru Wine Route, which covers about 21 kilometers between Ladoix-Serrigny and Santenay. We drove through beautiful ancient villages […]
Far Out Trips
The WSJ suggests seven trips for intrepid travelers to enjoy cultural festivals that offer insight into far-off places at their most interesting “and sometimes strangest” times. From the Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia, which is described as “a cross between a sporting event and a fashion shoe; to a camel fair in India where thousands […]
Greetings From Paris
This morning’s Le Figaro headline: “Migrants: Paris confrontee a la multiplication des campements.” It doesn’t take much command of French to get the picture that the words migrants, multiplication, and campments paint. Yes, it’s a mess. Anne Hidalgo is Paris’ ultra-liberal socialist mayor and is not up to the task of stemming the refugee horde. […]
Paris: Car Free for a Day
This should be interesting. Paris will go car free for a day. Web Urbanist writes: For a single day next month, locals and visitors will be able to experience Paris without motorized traffic, giving the city over to pedestrians and bikers. Free of traffic congestion, noise pollution and vehicle emissions, the Day Without Cars will transform […]
Hungry for Paris
This is the name of the first book Debbie and I pull out in advance of each trip to Paris. A few years ago we went on a very special food and wine tour in Paris and Switzerland. The once in a lifetime gastronomic adventure was organized and led by internationally acclaimed cookbook writer and […]
The Ruination of the French Riviera
Taki Theodoracopulos, writing in the American Conservative, tells readers, “The ruination of the French Riviera by greedy developers and vulgar nouveaux riches is a body blow very hard to recover from. I invested 35 summers, and I hate to think the amount of money and now I have nothing to show for it but a […]
A Voice from the Past
Last night, Debbie and I were having dinner out at a local ocean-front hotel, following our 10-day Harley road trip, featuring several days of ducking nasty weather and one broken-down-bike mishap outside of Portland, ME. All in all, we covered 800 miles riding through five New England states. Near the end of the evening I […]
E.J.’s Notes from the Wild, Wild West
You don’t have to spend a ton of money to have fun with your family, but it certainly helps. My family just returned from an incredible trip out west beginning at a ranch in Montana, then to Yellowstone National Park, and down to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This was an important trip for Becky and me. […]
Fishing Wyoming: VIDEO
My daughter Izzy caught this beautiful Brown Trout on our recent trip out West. We were fishing the Green River (the Snake River was too cloudy) southeast of Jackson, Wyoming. It was a beautiful day on the river.
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