Category: Living in France
-
Ancient Art in the Louvre
Last week, I visited the Louvre with my cousins, and we spent nearly five hours there. I told them I had heard that if you spent just one minute in front of each object, it would take 23 years to…
-
Looking Outside the Louvre
Life has been captured in paint, carved from stone, cast in bronze, and passed from one generation to the next. Every canvas, every sculpture, every weathered surface beckons to hold a fragment of who we were—a love, a loss, a…
-
Aix en Provence
Facades, the color of sunshine. Four dauphins, do you know the meaning? Calissons: have you had one? Do you know the story behind them? When you were walking about remember to look up: religious statues are for watching you. A…
-
What Do We See
It’s funny how you can see the same place over and over again and still never really see it. Then one day, someone points out one small, obvious detail, and you’re left wondering how you could have missed it all…
-
My Cousins are Coming!
My cousin Alma and her dear husband Mike arrive this evening to stay with us! We have talked about this trip for years, and now it is here! Every summer our families vacationed together, and as a child and into…
-
Le Train Bleu
Le Train Bleu We stopped inside for lunch, The interior was my dessert.