Monthly Archives: October 2014

Restaurant Review: Dessance, Paris

Dessance was a truly interesting and memorable meal: while saying they focus on the sweet part of the flavour spectrum, all the dishes emphasized flavour, and we loved the savoury dishes as well.  Ah, welcome to Paris to us. For … Continue reading

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Book Review: Roddy Doyle’s Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle My rating: 2 of 5 stars Sigh. The last time I was suckered into reading a Booker Prize winner and disliked it was Ben Okri’s Famished Road. When I was in university, … Continue reading

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Book Review: Sarah Turnbull’s Almost French: A New Life In Paris (Memoir)

Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull My rating: 3 of 5 stars Written in a breezy journalist’s style and with the brief to write about culture shock in Paris, this book was interesting and … Continue reading

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Restaurant Review: Cafe Trama

It’s raining in Paris, heavily in comparison to earlier on today when it was sprinkling with rain, kind of moist all over. But it’s not torrential like in some cities, and oh, this city glows, the streetlights and shoplights and … Continue reading

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A little Monday night meal at Le Café du Commerce, Paris

The thing is, in Paris, on a Monday night, most restaurants are closed. My friends were staying near Commerce and I did a pretty comprehensive search, I thought, on TripAdvisor, and I was having troubles coming up with options. Out … Continue reading

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Reading Hemingway in Paris

Today, I have been reading Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. He writes about his younger self in Paris, as a writer, living, without much money, on the Left Bank in Paris. I am a writer, just moved here to work … Continue reading

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A little trip to southwest France

As much for my own records as to provide advice, I thought I’d do a little summary of our August 2014 trip: We’d decided probably a year before that France would be our destination, but where? So many places to … Continue reading

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