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Wed, 28 Oct 2015 | By kakimono | Views [518]
Sunday I went to the Fete de la Science at Paris 6. Contrary to the name, this was nothing approaching a celebration. Rather, it was a bunch of grad students presenting their research, or at least their topic, typically in a child-friendly way. By going ... Read more >
Tags: astronomy, engineering, mirrors, physics, science
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 | By shire_girl | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 27 Oct 2015 | By shire_girl | Views [423]
I have indeed fallen behind in sharing my travels with you! However the last month of my trip will not go amiss. Now I am home again and no longer planning my next stay I hope to finish with my trip postings in the next couple weeks.
My last night ... Read more >
Sat, 24 Oct 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [667]
LYON MUST BE THE STAIR-MASTER OF FRANCE: everything seems to be uphill or down. And a river runs through it — two rivers, actually, the Rhone and Saone, separated by the peninsula of Presqu’ile where we are staying. Lyon is supposedly ... Read more >
Tue, 20 Oct 2015 | By elcastleberry | Views [748]
The trail turned sharply left, away from the highway. Within moments, the roar of passing trucks was muted, then swallowed by the heavy fog that engulfed the Chamonix Valley. The forest floor was a carpet of wet moss over boulders, an undulating sea ... Read more >
Tags: fog, forest, france, hiking, mountains, outdoors, waterfalls
Tue, 20 Oct 2015 | By kakimono | Views [637]
In Integration, we started looking at integrals. On the first day of class, the CM professor had explained that the point of the class was not to teach us to integrate better. Which is good, because if that had been the point, spending five weeks without ... Read more >
Tags: analysis, classes, french, history, math, russian, topology
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [680]
ACTUALLY IT’S PRONOUNCED “NIECE” AND “EASE” but it really is nice and easy. Nice may be the fifth largest city in France but we couldn’t find lodging there that met all or our needs; parking, it seems, costs ... Read more >
Thu, 15 Oct 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [682]
ET DIEU CREA LA FEMME. And God Created Woman . These five words — and the sex kitten Brigette Bardot — transformed the sleepy fishing village of St. Tropez into a port-of-call for celebrities and jet-setters. No longer ... Read more >
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 | By kakimono | Views [531]
Friday before leaving for Dordogne, the lightbulb in the lamp nearest to the sofa (which happens to be my second-most used source of light. The most used is, of course, the sun.) went out. My bedside table lamp was too dim, and the kitchen light was ... Read more >
Tags: bookstores, cooking, lightbulbs
Sat, 10 Oct 2015 | By kakimono | Views [651]
If anyone has been quietly thinking to themselves “why is she always talking about classes? I didn’t know she actually intended to study abroad,” worry no longer. As of this week, description of what’s going on in my classes ... Read more >
Tags: analysis, french, math, russian, school, topology
Fri, 9 Oct 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [667]
ARLES AND AVIGNON HAVE THREE THINGS in common. It’s obvious that each begins with the letter “ A ,” and both are in Provence on the Rhone River. Arles and Avignon also have a history with Rome. Arles became an important ... Read more >
Thu, 8 Oct 2015 | By kakimono | Views [674]
On Thursday, I had a ticket to Opera Garnier for the dance spectacle Boris Chamatz. It was one of the cultural activities for the program, and I hadn't really paid any more attention to it than that. Which, I realised at about the point I was standing ... Read more >
Tags: ballet, culture, dance, opera garnier
Wed, 7 Oct 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [606]
ORANGE SOLVED TWO PROBLEMS FOR THE ROMANS. It was a perfect place to pension off loyal Roman officers and their presence would be a deterrent to those pesky Gauls who continued to tweak the Roman nose. The main sites are the city arch, not ... Read more >
Tue, 6 Oct 2015 | By airportelf | Views [243]
I arrived in France one fateful August morning to find no luggage waiting for me. This was 40 days ago. Let me quickly recap 40 days without luggage.
Day 1: laundry. Borrow clothes from my sister I'm staying with. File luggage report. ... Read more >
Mon, 5 Oct 2015 | By elcastleberry | Views [760]
In a shining moment of mature glory, I drank two cups of coffee on an empty stomach and raced up to freezing temperatures and thin air at an altitude of 3,842 meters, where I promptly started running up flights of stairs, fueled by excitement and adrenaline.... Read more >
Tags: altitude, cable car, france, hiking, mountains, outdoors, snow
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