In depth recounting of my global wandering
In the introduction to the post about the 19oo Olympic Games I teased two stories about the 1924 Games. The first focused on a pair of dates in 1981 and 1982 when one story from the Games of the VIII …
Paris, which will host the XXIII Summer Games in 2024 has twice before hosted the Summer Olympics in 1900 (the second Games) and again in 1924 (the Games of the VIII Olympiad). I think it would be fair to say …
Having unsurprisingly failed to condense my Paris visit to a single post, I’ll try to wrap up the three succeeding days in this entry before taking a look at the pair of Parisian Olympiads. Saturday. Sometimes, as they say in …
Unlike the earliest entries in this series such as those for Montreal and Atlanta, I’ve written about my more recent visits to Olympic host cities elsewhere in this blog and that’s the case for Paris – the penultimate city for …
I’ve written before about some of the reasons I include posts about subjects such as geology or archaeology that are seemingly peripheral aspects of travel. One I haven’t mentioned is that in the course of learning about a place in …