The following are short posts and pictures about different activities we did with the Kahns. The Kahns are our friends from Lexington MA and they came for one week to visit us in Paris. We’ve been friends with the Kahns since my Mom and Dad were in college. They have two children, Sophie and Rachel. […]
The Kahns were visiting and it was time for some cultural immersion. We were going on a fashion tour along with our friend Nathalie, and our first stop: Chanel. Our tour guide in front, we walked to Chanel (down 6 doors from our apartment), stopped in front of the windows, and listened to Sophie our […]
Le Grand Vefour has been around for a very long time. It was the first restaurant in Europe to be open to the public with a menu. So with our friends Rachel, Sophie, Sandy, and Grant, we went there for lunch. Guy Martin, the head chef, met us at the door. We greeted him then […]
We wanted a genuine cultural immersion in one of Europe’s greatest cities. That’s why we decided to rent an apartment in Paris versus stay in a hotel. We’d make the beds, run the errands, and do all the cooking and cleaning. Everything would surely be more fun in French. While this has largely been true, […]
Have you ever wished you could go back to college… and this time actually study? With a couple of months of free time in Paris and the benefit of hindsight, I wanted to take a class and enjoy being a student again. I signed up for a semester-long course at the Sorbonne called the Cours […]
It was late September and we were skyping with our dear friends the Ramsey-Troughtons when all of a sudden Karen asked “Hey, what are you guys doing for the Columbus Day weekend?” I told her that we had no firm plans and she instantly replied “We’re coming!” Sure enough, two weeks later Karen, Colin, and […]
My family recently participated in an atelier at the Louvre. An atelier is a workshop and almost every museum in Paris offers them. This one was about photography. When we arrived we waited with some other families until the photographer got there. She told us what was going to happen in French, of which I […]
Who needs the elevator? Not Carter! Not Mrs. Altchek! And not me! The result was unanimous, to the top of the Eiffel tower without it. When we got to the first step, I was shaking. I’m not a big fan of heights…but there was sure to be fun at the top. Mrs.A started going up […]
Tennis was one of the things I knew I would really miss while traveling this year. And not just for the exercise. There’s not much better than giggling with my partner Devon as we flub drills at practice, the gentle ribbing of our coach Magnus as he tries to get us to focus, and the […]
Our last stop in the Loire Valley was the massive Château Chambord. The building was commissioned in 1519 by a 25-year-old King Francois I. The stated reason was that he loved to hunt and he dreamed of having a hunting lodge so princely that nobles would flock there to hunt in royal style. In French class we learned […]
We have seen a lot of castles on this journey. Whether built for battle or governance, very few have struck me as a place to live. They tend to be massive structures with imposing facades that dominate the landscape. The scales are generally so vast and the interiors so cold that despite the tapestries and […]
“I have wasted my hours” is a famous Leonardo da Vinci quote. We did not want to do that, so we decided to take a road trip. We went to four main places, one for each of us to blog about. And I am blogging about Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci has an amazing mansion. King […]
Can you guess what noble castle Piggy is dining in tonight? Remember everyone wants a chance to guess, so email your answer straight to me at katherine@365saturdays.org
My family recently went to Mont Saint Michel. My parents had always wanted to take us and we were all excited. As we neared Mont Saint Michel, we saw that the only way to get on the island was a long strip of land, very narrow, and pretty high. As we drove on to the […]
The family (including piggy of course) had a wonderful long weekend. We went to two main places and this is one of them. Can you guess where Piggy visited over the weekend? (Pssst… it is not always completely connected to land!) Remember everyone wants to guess so don’t just post your answer – email it straight […]
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