Archive for August 13th, 2006

No Rest

Here I am in sunny California. The weather is perfect. The family is all together, celebrating a birthday party. Children and adults alike are having fun on the water slide, swimming in the pool, and eating tasty BBQ meat. Despite this, I am here, inside our relatives’ house, constantly checking the news back home. The [...]

Aug 13, 2006 | 9 comments | View Post

Excuse Moi

Not many news reports cry out “blog post” like this one. French try not to be so rude AS Parisians crowd to the beaches in August, tourists are descending on the City of Light in droves, undeterred by a recent survey highlighting complaints that visitors get the cold shoulder from locals. The most visited country [...]

Aug 13, 2006 | 2 comments | View Post