Recently, I had my first occasion to go shoe-shopping in Paris. I needed a pair of shoes for an audition. For me, the perfect audition shoes look nicely dressy, but are still fairly comfortable, so that I can go about my business singing without thinking about pain in my feet. (No high heels for me!) [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Finding Shoes for Large Feet in Paris
Posted in Daily Life on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Adventures with Octopus
Posted in Food on February 24, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Jen’s out of town so it’s my chance to do all of the things that she finds objectionable. Tonight I cooked an octopus. Back in the old days it seems that seafood was often a cheap source of protein. Lobster used to be fed to prisoners because it was so cheap. Fish and chips wouldn’t [...]
Elevator Discipline
Posted in Daily Life on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When we were looking for an apartment in Paris, Greg and I wanted to find a place where we would be on a high floor without an elevator. We wanted to make exercise a little bit difficult to avoid. Since we also wanted a furnished place, moving in/out wouldn’t be a big problem. But the [...]
Going to the Louvre
Posted in Sightseeing on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Having a membership to the Louvre has been great. We’ve already visited four times in our first month. On a recent weekend, we went two days in a row. We didn’t plan to do that– on Saturday we had decided ahead of time to go, but on Sunday afternoon we simply found ourselves in the neighborhood [...]
Art or Science?
Posted in Culture, Language, Science on February 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Jen and I did a project for an art show at Cafe A in Paris last year before Christmas. The title of the show was “Art or Science?” and the subject was the sometimes blurry connection between art and science. Some images from the Hubble Space Telescope venture into the realm of art. Jackson Pollack’s [...]
An Amazing Bakery
Posted in Food on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There are five boulangeries/patisseries within a five-minute walk of our apartment. Five that I know of, anyway– there may be some that we haven’t discovered yet. Each of them is wonderful, and each has a slightly different atmosphere and selection of treats. So we tend to rotate through all of them regularly. But there is [...]
Coupez la tête!
Posted in Silliness on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Going to Annecy over the holidays was probably the best thing we did for our French since we’ve been here. We did speak a little English there, but there were enough people who spoke only French that the center of gravity of the conversations was always French. It was immersion, albeit only for a few [...]
French Television
Posted in Culture on February 1, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Greg and I bought a TV recently. We hadn’t had one for several years in the States, but we decided to get one for help with language acquisition. I’ll admit that my comparing French TV to American TV may not be terribly useful, since we didn’t watch too much in the years before we moved. [...]
