Category: Camino

I spent some time at the  musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac  today.  This museums regular collections include indigenous art and culture from Asia, Africa, Oceana, and the Americas.     One of their informative placards was the...

Paris has a population of about 2.27 million people and a population density of  21,498 people per square kilometer.  It has the 22nd highest population density of any major city on earth(1). Compare that with Seattle...

I stood in line for over an hour waiting to buy a ticket for an elevator ride to the top of the Eiffel Tower.  An hour gives you plenty of time to meet your neighbors in...

Travel is all about adventure, challenges, and new experiences.  Sometimes you go out seeking these things and sometimes they just land in your lap like a stack of wet newspapers.     In today’s case, I collected...

The term “exploring” implies open-mind, totally objective, information gathering.  That is not what really is going on here.   Whenever I have a little time in a new town or village, even when I was just...

I had about an hour to explore a less glamorous area of Toulouse before my bus left for Montpellier.  After a few blocks of dirty beige storefronts and boarded-up windows, I stumbled on this wall painting....

Pont Neuf (translates: “New Bridge”, catchy name, eh?) is a relatively recent version at this particular crook in the river La Garonne having been constructed in 1632. It’s predecessor was started in 1125 by a Benedictine...