November 1, 2011
Martin Luther King Park, in front of our appartement, is a large sprawling area of former railway yards which was supposed to have become the Olympic Village if Paris had been chosen for the 2012 Olympic Games.
But London won that dubious honour and is now busily bankrupting its citizens, adding to that long list [...]
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October 1, 2011
My elderly mother-in-law used to regard going to the local post office in the village where she lived, to buy a stamp, as her day’s outing. The rest of the family thought this was very amusing, including me.
Yesterday, I finally bought a stamp. One full month after arriving in Paris, I’ve discovered where the local [...]
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