Part of traveling to a new place is finding a fun hotel that's both convenient but also nice to return to at the end of the day. The difficult thing is that I tend to travel to expensive cities and am always looking for a hotel that is decent but won't break the bank.On my … [Read more...]
Beaubourg
This is a photo from my first day in Paris, which was two weeks ago this weekend. To get a feel for the city, we walked around the afternoon we arrived. When I saw a sign for the Pompidou Centre, we headed in that direction and found this delightful fountain and sculpture … [Read more...]
First impressions of Paris
I recently returned from my first trip to Paris and thought I would spend time there looking for their Chinatown or other Chinese influences like I did in Italy 20-some years ago. Back then I found a couple Chinese restaurants in Rome, but that was it.Not so for … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
The summer hasn't started yet and I'm already knee-deep in college preparations for Jake. We've signed up for his classes, laughed through his Mandarin placement test (all a guess to him), and decided that he should study simplified characters rather than traditional ones because … [Read more...]
Treasures from a past life
For a while now, I've been thinking about the Chinese textbooks I used in college 25 years ago and how outdated they must seem now. I knew I'd kept at least one, and had looked through some bookshelves but it wasn't until this evening that I found one. And next to it was a … [Read more...]
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