After just twenty-four hours in Paris, I couldn’t wait to report on what went on. Last fall I’d ready an interesting book written by an Australian journalist who married a Frenchman and eventually moved to le premier arrondissement in Paris. In Almost French, Sarah Turnbull lovingly describes la rue Montorgueil, a pedestrian walkway [...]
Our stay in the Vaucluse was just great: we finished all of the research that we’d planned on doing and we took all of the excursions, big and small, that we wanted. But with our time drawing to a close, we had lots of last minute details to take care of–packing up boxes of [...]
Since we still had the car on a Monday in May, we decided to go see another of the big towns of the Vaucluse: Orange. The area has undergone tremendous transformations and hardships over the centuries. Originally settled by the Gauls, the Romans established a colony there around 35 BCE. The city [...]
