Égalité and the Way to a Woman’s Heart
There’s a lot to like about the French. Liberty, Fraternity and Equality is a wonderful motto and it sounds especially seductive when you say it in French. The language has loads of cool phrases...
Monthly Archive: November 2015
Montreal & Quebec City Gallery
Montreal is the second-largest French-speaking city in the world. In the Old City and Old Port, the architecture is thoroughly European, including the obligatory gothic cathedral. Notre-Dame Basilica is a fine example with a...
Sand, Schmaltz and the Beach That Never Ends
Travelling is tough. It requires a clear vision, a sharp mind and the ability to make decisions. You need to make decisions all the time. Should we eat in or should we eat out?...
Popham Beach Gallery
Ten days gave us plenty of opportunity to appreciate the varied but always spectacular moods of Popham Beach. Healthy breakers lapping the shore, islands you can walk to, sturdy lighthouses in the distance and...
Impressions of Maine
Lighthouses, lobster shacks, blueberries and clam chowder. That’s Maine, right? Not so. For me, the irresistible draw of travel is exactly that: the way in which the real place is always both more and less than...
Northern Maine Gallery
Our New England meanderings included two separate stints in Maine. For the first and northernmost of these, we stayed in a small lobster fishing village called Corea. We chose this location to be close to Acadia...
Beer Drinkers’ Gallery
Saul doesn’t drink beer. I didn’t pick up the habit until I was in my thirties, and it was travel-related curiosity that did me in. I clearly remember the first beer I ever really...
New England Leaves Gallery
Tired of waterfalls? Tired of black beaches? Wanna see some leaves? Here we go…
Feeling Lucky in Small Town America
Although we had planned to head north from Boston, a pleasant coincidence had us heading west instead. My cousin Grant and his wife Judith were visiting their daughter Catherine in the small college town...
The Weird Tourist Gallery
If you’ve viewed a few of the galleries on this blog, you may have noticed the lack of people in most of the photos. Saul and I seldom photograph one another, except for candid...
