Desire for a New Bag, Prune-Coloured.. . . Or?

We’re back in our Bordeaux rental now, where it will be good to sleep more than four nights in a row in the same bed, to have easy access to laundry facilities (we have a…

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Well, Hello Berlin. . .

Last post, I waved to you from the train as we left Paris, but I was coy about our destination. If you’ve been following me on Instagram, you will know by now that we’re in…

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Wednesday Wave, from Paris…

We’re waiting for the train, and I’m going to try again to post something. I wrote a post this morning with some photos from our two days in Paris, walking and walking and walking…. And…

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Ticket for One, Please, a Bordeaux Concert and my Illustrated Journal

Having spent the day getting myself from Bordeaux to Paris, arriving here in time to enjoy a walk from Montparnasse hotel 6 kilometres across Paris on a sunny Sunday afternoon, working my Rimowa through the…

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Ferrante ReadAlong, The Plot Thickens. . .

As I begin re-reading Chapter 11 of “The Story about the Shoes,” the section of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend recounting the girls’ adolescence, I see the easy temptation to think poorly of Lenù for…

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