http://Travelday.today.com adventures in Paris and beyond Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:57:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   The Parisians are famous for being stand-offish and cold. Whoever started that rumor obviously never met the Basques. I don't mean that as an insult: it's more like the mild-mannered swing you take at the popular kids that you so desperately want to fit in with: I'm sure that if the ... http://Travelday.today.com/2009/10/05/the-basques/ You know that life is good when Tuesday afternoon at the end of September finds you on the beach with a cold San Miguel and a view of semi-pro surfers. I live my life for me. I've tried living it for other people: my parents, my friends, the various boys who ... http://Travelday.today.com/2009/09/30/and-what-if/ I never thought that I would be able to love a city that had so much rain. I had always knocked London and Seattle off my list of places to live for this very reason--we curly-haired girls have to be careful where we go. And although the torrential rain here sometimes ... http://Travelday.today.com/2009/09/23/san-sebastian-by-night/   For me, it's hard to say when a place stops being just somewhere I'm camping out and becomes a real home. Sure, I say that I've "lived" in a myriad of places, from Toronto to Cannes, Andover to Royan, but the places where I've really and truly felt as though I ... http://Travelday.today.com/2009/09/08/ill-always-have-paris/ The more time I spend in Paziols, the less time I have to write. My first year, all I did was write: this blog didn't exist yet, but I kept a journal, I worked on novels... I didn't do much of anything else as Anne-Marie and Alex drove all over the ... http://Travelday.today.com/2009/08/15/peyrepertuse-and-fauconnerie/ As much time as I spend in Paziols, and as much as it becomes more and more of a home to me every day, I was struck with the realization recently that, until this year, I have never been here without an agenda. I suppose I'm still here for work, so ... http://Travelday.today.com/2009/07/24/la-prade-3/ I'm usually fairly against blog posts that rely too heavily on pictures, but after finding even more from that day we spent at la fontaine des eaux, I decided to make an exception and let the pictures speak for themselves today. Happy browsing! http://Travelday.today.com/2009/07/16/more-from-la-fontaine-des-eaux/ I have a predicament. Well, maybe not so much a predicament. Predicaments seem awfully serious, and it's quite difficult to have a predicament when your days are filled with photo-taking and swimming and cooking. It's hard to accept the fact that the only real job I've had in months seems much ... http://Travelday.today.com/2009/07/16/paziols-3/ Everything in Paziols is connected. It's not a concept I grasped easily: I knew that there was a reason that we were watching Marcel Pagnol movies and taking walks in the vineyards, but the walks themselves never conjured the image of Manon des Sources, and watching Jean de Florette never made ... http://Travelday.today.com/2009/07/07/la-prade-2/ I find it pretty incredible that, after three summers of coming back to Paziols and conducting the same program over and over again, there are still things I haven't seen: festivals, hikes, museums that we always plan to visit and end up not being able to work into the schedule, ... http://Travelday.today.com/2009/07/05/la-caune-darago/