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Reasons I could be German: 1. The bread. Oh my god, the bread. I am no longer even avoiding gluten; I am wholeheartedly embracing it. 2. Veggies for breakfast are an excellent idea. 3. Everywhere has a terrace. I could ever go inside, if I didn't want to. And there are trees everywhere. 4. Beer …
In anticipation of my meditations on Cuba, here are some things I saw there. Feel free to ask questions, though I can't promise to answer them. (In case you were wondering, Montreal was also awesome and I'd highly recommend it, but pretty much nowhere can beat Cuba for cool factor.) You can't tell but these …
At some point in college, I made a top five list of countries I wanted to visit. Ridiculous, I realize, but, as someone who wants to go everywhere all the time, I had to order my thoughts and plans somehow. The list was as follows, in no particular order: Turkey Morocco Cuba India Denmark As …
I just have to throw this out there into the blogosphere: I know I've been remiss about posting for the last six months (during which time I moved to New York from Paris and have slowly managed to build a life for myself), but you're going to have to forgive me. The travel site I …
Okay guys, time for our first ever officially interactive post! Get excited. I'm quite familiar - as are those of you who followed my blog in the first half of 2009 - with the Indian/Southeast Asian man's way of treating women, particularly foreign ones, on the street. I imagine it's also similar to that in …
In the last year, I have realized many times how fortunate I am to be a native English speaker; English absolutely is the international language. It's one thing to say it, or to know it in theory - I think we all know it - but to see it in action is another thing entirely. …
This weekend, my friend Susannah came to visit from Arles, where she's teaching English on the assistantship program. Thanks to her need to experience as much of Paris as possible in one weekend (she studied abroad here too, but living in France away from Paris can cause strong pangs of longing for Paris, so she …
I hate getting behind on blog updates. As soon as things start to happen, you tell yourself you can't post about them until you've covered the stuff that came before, and then, next thing you know, you've found a job (at a documentary film production company), you put a deposit on an apartment, your boyfriend …
Winter has hit Paris. Full on. I think the average this week is -1. Celcius, that is. We're in Europe, remember. My nose is permanently red, and my face is dry and burnt from the cold and wind. I rejoice in the metro, however smelly it may be, because I know that the more people …
Crisis averted. Welcome to the ups and downs of my life. Now you now what it's really like living the jet-setting life: terrifying. You've been warned. You've tasted the depths of my despair. One day you'll be walking on air, the next day you'll be plummeted into hopelessness so deep you want to disappear under …
Kate Thorman 