Montevideo: “The Truce” by Mario Benedetti
One of the reasons I write this blog is that I like to read novels that describe the place I’m traveling to. For my recent stay in Montevideo, I chose Continue Reading →
Books I love as I travel
One of the reasons I write this blog is that I like to read novels that describe the place I’m traveling to. For my recent stay in Montevideo, I chose Continue Reading →
The taste for poetry runs deep in Nicaragua, a country where the harshness of volcanoes is softened by the water of lakes. On our recent trip to León, we visited Continue Reading →
We set off from our hotel on Philipps Square towards McGill University. After an initial exploration of the campus, we climbed the stairs to the viewpoint in front of the Continue Reading →
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. So Continue Reading →
I’ve already spent three full days in Panama, without ever sleeping there. Not that I partied all night. Rather, I enjoyed three long layovers when I flew with the national Continue Reading →
This blog started from the idea of describing, by mixing them, my travel and reading experiences since I take a lot of pleasure in reading books, mostly novels, that take Continue Reading →
I remember well the first time I heard Mario Vargas Llosa speak. It was the literary program “Apostrophes” hosted by Bernard Pivot and I was probably watching it with my Continue Reading →
I take my daily walk, most often with an audio book playing in my headphones, in the park next to our house. My usual route takes me past vegetable gardens, Continue Reading →
We had just landed at Savannah airport in Georgia and the taxi driver who was bringing us to the Bed & Breakfast we had booked for the week-end welcomed us Continue Reading →
For many, Boston evokes prestigious universities such as Harvard, M.I.T. or Boston University. Even if the first two are actually located on the other side of the Charles River, in Continue Reading →