Posts tagged ‘travel’
Hemingway’s Paris for the Budget Traveler
Is the magic still there? The good news is, yes, it is–and even better news is that you don’t have to pay inflated prices to experience it…
France Bookshelf: Some Good Books About France
An idiosyncractic, beginning list of titles of books written (mostly in English) about France, or that take place in France (outside of Paris.) For books about Paris, see my Paris Bookshelf.
Five Tips for Americans Studying Abroad
What does it take to make the most of study abroad? Here are a few tips to help maximize the experience.
Discovering France’s Wines the Old-Fashioned Way
My French-speaking Australian friend Lincoln Siliakus celebrates his love of bicycling, the French countryside, and French wines in a wonderful new, prize-winning book, Visages de Terroir. Check it out!
Why Paris? Reason #1
Why have artists and writers (and everyone else) through the centuries fallen in love with Paris?
Essoyes, a wonderful little village in Champagne
…a perfect place to steal away and write from the heart…
Paris Through the Eyes of Travelers
My career developed out of a dual obsession. Reading made me want to travel, and traveling gave me more to read about. (And, in the way that it often does, all that reading eventually led to my own writing.)…It’s a cliche but it’s true: through the years I’ve learned as much from my students as they have from me. And we’ve all learned wonderful things together from the writers we’ve read…We’ve learned about love. About life. About the power and beauty of words.
Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road 