trip report

By Doru from Toronto, Canada, Fall 2003. Venice, then up the River Po from Venice to Cremona (...or so we thought...), with day excursions to Murano and Burano, Padova, Ferrara, Mantova, Parma and Cremona, then on to Castellina in Chianti and parts of the Chiantigiana, ending in Florence. Fair...

By Doru from Canada, Fall 2012. Three weeks in the Lower Marais, living la vie parisienne. Wednesday, 12 September - Arrival and Settling in the Lower Marais This starts from rue du Petit Musc, in the Lower Marais, Paris, where we have installed ourselves for what we hope will be a wonderful...

By Doru from Canada, Fall 2010, A return to Paris, living "la vie parisienne" like the Parisians do... Meeting Saint-Antoine, the Neighbourhood The flight from Toronto, with Air Canada, was quite pleasant. The 777 has less leg room than the 767, but it is adequate. The in-flight Air Canada...

By Doru from Canada, Spring 2004. Impressions, some passing and some lasting, from a recent return to one of our favorite cities. “This city, before Julius Caesar’s time, had been little more than a flood-prone fishing village clinging to a marshy island in the middle of the Seine and inhabited...