On my last day in Paris and she gave me a beautiful rainbow.
PS. I will be keeping the Oui 2 Paris blog for a while as I have much to post of photos and stories and reviews (bagel-tasting around town, trip to Versailles, street art, visits to lesser known museums, etc..)
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Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
Though a committed conservative royalist when he was young, Hugo grew more liberal as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.
The City of Paris has preserved his residence at 6 Place des Vosges as a museum.
(c/o Wikipedia)
the inkstands and pens of Lamartine, George Sand, Alexandre Dumas, and of Victor Hugo himself
Place des Vosges
Autumn at Place des Vosges
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Some photos from the 644 total of southern France are up on flickr now.
Including: Cordes-sur-Ciel, Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, and at a bend in the river sunning while watching rock climbers and military men on break jumping into the river and canoeing
Yet to go:
343 photos of...
France to Andorra via car and beautiful windy roads: I've seen heaven and it is the sunlight on the mountains. I've seen hell and it is Andorra duty-free city. I also have really awesome friends who drive like champions and make kick ass road trip soundtracks.
218 photos of...
Barcelona
And, am currently in Switzerland eating well, drinking good wine, enjoying the rains, and planning for future use of the documentary we made for our graduation project (curious what my grades are but unaffected by the doom or delight).
Cheers!
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Verdict #1
Guess who's moved into the neighborhood? And that could be good or bad for me (verdict is out on this one thus far).
Verdict #2
You no longer have to fear the biker gang, because it's the scooter gang that is out to get you.
Verdict #3
A lot of people look great, but I bet they spent two hours trying to look this way.
Verdict #4
Paris is beautiful in the spring, but it makes me sneeze for all the tree pollen.
Verdict #5
Some people on the metro have super cool shoes, and I bet their feet feel the same way.
Verdict #6
Fire makes paper look cool, but is not nice for an apartment or person
Verdict #7
"Ciflorette is a variety with a fruity taste with a slight flavour of wild strawberry. The children particularly like its perfect sweetened/tangy balance. Its fruit is elongated and of a beautiful orangy red colour." Medium early (Beginning March to mid-May).
It is smaller and way better than the humongous, over-hormoned strawberries that I ate in the USA.
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Last month of grad school:
Multilevel Economic Governance: paper on deepening my examination of the US-Colombia trade agreement, trade as a whole, FTAs, WTO, waivers, pros and cons
Risk Governance: we have to re-work last semeter's paper = Regulatory Risk, EU Commission and anti-discrimation directives on Member States
Final Capstone Project: we're writing the final script of our documentary (see my Risk paper), Croatia is our case study as they ascend to the EU
Speaking of Croatia, I'm uploading the photos from our trip to Zagreb. Should be up on flickr by end of today.
And then the on-going job hunt. Narrowing in on Geneva. Aiming to shop around the documentary and mapping exercise (business, legal, moral case for diversity management in Europe) to consultancies, NGOs, governments.
Paris is in full spring bloom with hot days followed by cool rains. Oh, and I posted photos from the Paris Marathon on flickr. I never found my girl friend who ran, but there are some pretty interesting shots of the finish, which I hope convey the overwhelming sense of endorphins that was in the air then.
I can't believe I'll have a Master soon. It's mind blowing. My sister and her fiance are coming in June after graduation and we're looking at heading to Cinque Terre again. It's such a beautiful part of the world.
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