The Third Age Chronicles

A Farewell to Paris

November 30, 2011

In a few hours I’ll be on the Eurostar to London and 5 days later I’ll be back in Vancouver. Will this really be  a farewell to Paris or only an ‘au revoir’?
Three months is not a long time to fulfill a lifetime’s dream but it may have to do.  It has been long enough [...]

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Occupying Paris at 75

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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SENIOR PARIS

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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Paris – 2nd Impressions

September 1, 2011

As the old saying goes, you don’t get a second chance at a first impression. But it’s been so long since my first impression 50 years ago that it almost seems that way.  In that long ago time I had hoped to live and work here in Paris but I couldn’t make it happen so [...]

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GERONTOCRACY – ugly word for an ugly situation

August 2, 2011

On the eve of a trip which will take me half way round the globe from Vancouver to Paris – and back again a few months later, I should be full of anticipation and excitement. In the past, I would have been. But now, things have changed. Too many difficult questions have been avoided or [...]

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