December 23, 2013 It was hard to get out of Paris. We stayed an extra two days (out of our 25) in Belleville, the recently gentrifying part of northeast Paris proper. Not as bad as the completely over-developed Marais, formerly…
Europa, Xmas 2013-14, Pareeeee!
December, 2014 Just the words. “L’Isle de la Cite”, the tiny island in the middle of “La Seine”, from where the great city grew. “Notre Dame”, the grandest cathedral of them all, construction first begun, brick by brick, in 1153. “L’Arc…
Europa, Xmas 2013-14, “Family”/Rotterdam
December, 24, 2013 Family and Christmas go together, right? Like love and marriage. Like horse and carriage, right? Well, I won’t disagree. But growing up in a mostly non-practicing Jewish family, I didn’t know much about it. Sure, we had…
Europa, Xmas 2013-14, “In Bruges” or… On the Road Again
December 29, 2013 Eeeeeeeeeee hah! “On the road again”. This time in Holland and Belgium, Xmas, 2013. I’m riding shotgun with BadAss Bro-in-law, Dillinger Dave, and we’ve broken out the little Audi for an all day trip to touro-Euro friendly,…
Amsterdam, 2008: just about my favorite city on the planet
the perfect city, a place to grow old in. “perfect”? i remember in alleppey, india, sitting at the edge of the gently flowing, cow brown river, laid back with my feet up on the old wooden arms of the traditional…
Spain, 2005 viridiana
sevilla, spain summer, 2005 he’s staring down from the rooftop of the vencione in the roughest area of the macarena. it’s not the trendy dance of a few years ago, “the macarena”, but the neighborhood where the name has come…