The season of travel seems to have taken me sort of by surprise, so I haven’t been updating my blog as well as I probably should have. I finally bought a decent digital camera, though, so I should be putting up some more pictures soon. My sister has a fantastic camera, which she used when she visited me for a week. We ate so much cheese that week that I hardly feel like touching the stuff now! And I live in France! After my sister visited I went to the US for a week, which was pretty relaxing, except for having my former Ph.D. advisor suggest that I become a high school teacher. Not only is it not what I’m interested in, but I’d have to go back to school to get my certification! Ugh, depressing.
On a brighter note, my dad is visiting me for a week, and it seems like he is really getting a feeling of Paris life. I found a tiny hotel for him, for 35 euros per night, not far from where I live. The room doesn’t have a toilet, but it does have a shower, and for any cheaper you’d probably have to go to a youth hostel. It’s close to bus and metro, on the southern edge of Paris. In case anybody is interested, it’s Hotel Montsouris-Orleans, 35 rue Beaunier, 75014. Tomorrow, my dad starts a self-guided trip to Italy for a couple weeks, and then he is going to Copenhagen to join an Elderhostel tour of Scandinavia. Altogether, he’s rambling around Europe for six weeks (he started out in Amsterdam). I’m so impressed by his sense of adventure – he doesn’t plan on finding a hotel in Rome until he gets there!
Myself, I took a trip to Barcelona in April. It was fantastic. The most impressive two things were the architecture by Gaudi and the pride of the Catalan people. In a close third is the impressively late dinners of the Spanish people. We never started before 10 or finished before midnight! Here is a picture from the roof of the Gaudi building called La Pedrera, with his unfinished Sagrada Familia Cathedral in the background.
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