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Trump  has pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement.  Instead of this being a triumph for  the Climate Change Denial movement, I thi...

Apropos the earlier discussion of the Museum of Immigration in Paris as well as the current immigration issues in Europe, I thought I'd ...

[Dear Reader, have patience with me.  I'm trying to pull together a number of thoughts and experiences in an attempt to make sense of a...

From Edmund White's The Flâneur : "At the turn of the nineteenth century the scientific flâneur (a contradiction in terms, since ...

It took Captain Cook almost two years to sail from England to Alaska , though he didn't really have a map and he went via New Zealand. ...

1.  Package tour or on your own? With the exception of a few short trips where a package was a better deal than booking on one's own, ...

The Musée Cluny was recommended by a friend, but the idea of rooms and rooms of stuff from the middle ages just wasn't that appealing.  ...

We were wandering down the street from the Musée Cluny to the Louvre when we came across this Lebanese restaurant.  I asked for some taboule...