Photos taken in Belleville, 2011 — posted about here and here and here I’m reading Nancy Huston’s Infrared, following its rather densely interior narrative (I’ll contradict myself, I suppose, in mentioning its descriptions of Florence, of Italian art,…
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As I mentioned earlier in the week, our lovely new garden friend arrived in a parcel from France — he was very well cushioned on his journey, and thanks to the dismal weather we’ve been having,…
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Besides viewing some wonderful art while we were away, we also enjoyed a variety of live music performances. In Bordeaux’s gorgeous Opera House, we shared a beautifully decorated box with a lovely older couple and…
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Something over 30 hours ago, we checked the closet one last time, made sure we had our passports and ticketing info handy, then left the keys in the little bamboo basket on the tiny, triangular…
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We have visited so many museums and exhibitions in the last month: Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh (where we followed a tour guide through a great exposition on Symbolism from Van Gogh to Kandinsky). In…
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