Tag: Europe
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Cadaques and megalithic dolmens
Megalithic structures are those made with large (mega) stones (lithic) and I’m going to say usually a long time ago because we humans seem to have stopped exerting such great individual effort to build small structures from such large materials. (We’ve instead distributed the great effort and probably exert more than ever. Think about the…
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Teatro-museo Dalí, Figueres
Surrealism might be one of my favorite things across the arts. It takes a certain flavor of imagination to create something so unexpected and complex. Even when he painted in a more traditional style (like the baskets of bread, or his portraits of Gala) there’s something more than meets the eye. We did a guided…
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Roses, España
Roses is a city on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. It’s name derives partially from the Ancient Greek colony, Rhode (named by explorers from Marseille) founded here sometime between the 8th and 5th centuries BCE among the furthest west of the empire. The Romans came along and eventually threw out the Greeks, then the…
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Paris 2025
We returned to Paris this summer to visit our friend Maisie and her daughter Lucy. It’s been more than two years since our last visit, during my sabbatical. Catching up with these two was the primary reason for the visit. Lucy is a few months younger than László, and Danielle and Maisie are both writers,…
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The Azores
Our final leg of this trip took us from one Portuguese archipelago to another: Ponta Delgada on the Azorean island São Miguel. It was an extraordinary cap to a trip that took us to big cities and countrysides across south-central Europe. Why these archipelagos? Well, we had this wacky idea to go big on this…