Tag: France

• Paris Inhabits Me, But Must Free Me To Wander The Dunes

  [A Gargoyle contemplates Paris from Notre Dame Cathedral. Charles Laughton, in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939, says to the figure: “Why am I not made of stone like this statue?” Source: Google Search] “Paris…is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers…” ~~Julian Green “We’ll always…

  patrickjegan

  September 13, 2024

  Deserts, Dreams, Dreams and Goals, non-fiction, Paris, Paris France, Travels

  #foucaultspendulum, #graveofjosephinebaker, #medicifountainparis, #ParisFrance, #perelachaisecemetery, #thepantheoninparis, #touringparis, europe, France, JardinsofLuxembourg, Paris, Travel

• Low Tide at Mont Saint-Michel

  There was a time when you needed to watch the rising sea water if you found yourself on the Mount of St. Michael.  The abbey and village were situated on the tidal flats of the second largest bay in the world, off the coast of Brittany.  You would cross to the abbey during low tide,…

  patrickjegan

  May 17, 2014

  History, Holding onto the Past, Mountains and Memories, Real Personal History, Things of Bauty, Travels

  Benedictines, Brittany, Fortress, France, Hundred Years War, Mont Saint-Michele, Normandy, Paris, the year 708 AD, tides, Tours

• Passports I: East and West of the Sun

  The great city of New York was behind us…and the sun was setting in the west.  We flew into the approaching darkness of night. As I was planning this blog series, I was sitting on the American Airlines 767 trans-oceanic super jet propelled airplane.  My problem, right from the ‘get go’ (God, I hate that…

  patrickjegan

  May 14, 2014

  Blogging, Everyday Events, humor, Real Personal History, Travels

  american airlines, bistro, flights, France, full moon, garden of luxemborg, JFK airport, Paris