This may be just an artifact of my personal experience, but I think I’m finding that the hotels offering “free Internet” are more often the low-priced hotels than the more expensive ones. At least in...
Wild bush meat and French pastries.
If you’re going to stereotype Cameroon, that’s just about the best way to do it. This unusual food combination stems from Cameroon’s origins, in 1961, when this African country formed...
One of my closest friends lives in Orange, in the south of France. Each August, I spend a week or so with him and his family while I'm enroute to the Riviera for a...
{Rebecca Kaplan and team built the above 20-ft metal sculpture for Burning Man which traveled to San Francisco.)There's a strange hush around San Francisco and the Bay Area. There's fewer people around, there's a little...
Calpis is a popular Japanese drink that is sweet and milky but at the same time light and refreshing. It’s a shame that it that never really took off in the United States. It’s probably...
Antony, 28 Aug, 2010
It's finally happened. An acquaintance from the states came to Paris, and actually wrote an asked to stay with me. I tried to explain that I lived in a rather...
Greetings from strike-ridden France, currently in partial paralysis due to a slew of strikes, to protest the goverment's proposed hike in the retirement age from 60 to 62. Never mind that 1/3 of...
Planning a family vacation to Alaska? Be sure to stop in Anchorage, where fun activities for the whole family abound. We spent a week in Anchorage in June, and these were some of the highlights...
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