Roads Less Traveled

When I was a kid, I always loved Jules Verne, especially his classic “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”.  In it, Captain Nemo explores a strange underwater world using a new invention, the submarine.  Verne was ahead of his time, and so I was delighted by his name being attached to a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, which was also far ahead of its time when it was built during the glorious Belle Epoque era back in the nineteenth century when Verne was kicking around Paris. Continue reading →

I came into Paris last night late enough to see the lights of the Eiffel Tower.  Continue reading →

I haven’t been to Paris in years, yet one thing you can still count on: they don’t know how to make bad food.  I step into a smoke filled bar (yes, the French love their Galouise, unfortunately) and sit down at the counter, ordering up a white wine and a salad, having been on meat overdose in Austria, where their idea of a vegetable is a potato with garnish.  Continue reading →