Mom and I woke up to our last day in Paris with a sigh. It had gone too quickly, of course, but this we knew before we embarked. We planned to spend this last bit with leisure, strolling and shopping along the Left Bank. The morning brought sunshine with simultaneous sprinkles of rain. Umbrellas popped […]
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I made sure to turn off my alarm clock on this day, feeling sure I would still wake early as usual. But, oops, jet lag caught us! We were both dreamily asleep come 8:30 a.m., which was une situation d’urgence – an emergency! Why? Because we had to get to our culinary tour at 9:30. […]
Rrrrrriiinnnnngggggg … the alarm! … still programmed to 5:00 a.m. as per usual Monday mornings … how did I forget to turn that off? Rule number one of vacations, and I blew it. And yet, it only took me thirty seconds to remember that I wasn’t waking up to go to work. I was waking […]
This year, my mother turned 70 and I turned 40. In the spirit of celebrating one another and enjoying this short life, we took a trip to Paris together. We chose December, in part, because it is my birthday month, but also because neither of us had visited in the winter before. So, why not […]
