Notes on the XXI Olympiad – Rio de Janeiro 2016 (Rio and Me addendum one)

With the opening of the XXI Olympiad in 2016, Rio de Janeiro became the first South American city to host the Olympic Games and as befits Rio and the Olympic movement, it was a combination of dizzying celebration, moments of …

Rio and Me

Today we land in Rio de Janeiro the most recent and final stop on the tour of Olympic host cities I’ve visited (through July 2022) and I’m writing the initial draft of this post almost three years to the day …

And now for something else a little different (Paris and Me supplement two)

On any day in the second half of the 19th century if one were to travel south from Paris 60 kilometers or so to the small town of Barbizon and the nearby Forêt de Fontainebleau, there is some likelihood that …