Monthly Archives: August 2018

It’s the final countdown The main reason we turned left was that it was getting toward or had even passed lunch time and left was the direction of a much more commercial area. Even better, it allowed us to descend …

The Americans who went up a mountain and called it a hill Since neither of us were pilgrims nor, speaking for myself at least, particularly spiritually inclined, Patricia and I continued walking northwest from the Tour Saint-Jacques along rue de …

The first promise I promised I’d circle back to the importance of the Spanish name for the Tower and now it’s time for me to do just that. It’s also the section where I’ll return, as I promised in this …

Draw the shade and pour yourself a strong one. This is the last entry and it’s gonna be a long one. (The header above will make sense when I tell you that in its initial incarnation, this was a nearly …

The Burghers of Calais Rodin again courted controversy, though less so with his creation of, The Burghers of Calais. The city of Calais commissioned the work to commemorate the sacrifice of six of the town’s elders during the Hundred Years …