J.-P. Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (in 1940) We've just learned from the Guardian (where else) , that Les Temps Modernes shut d...

...and you live in France, and you have a Dutch passport, and it's late November... Photo (as always) by Jason Yoon ...you have t...

Eventually, after a month and a half, we went back home. It took three days. Michael is fairly exhausted. We spent the second night in Carca...

Very low clouds moving in this afternoon---feels like San Francisco: It happens rarely, and when it does, it's typically in l...

(Yes, it's snowing:)

So, we went for lunch at the Excelsior. It's a hotel-restaurant located on St. Raphael's boardwalk, right next to the casino...

Picture taken on the beach of Théoule sur mer, next to the site of the former Marco Polo restaurant.

So we finally went to Cannes to watch the movie.The box office gal was very happy to see us, since we had tried four days ago, but then we...

We went to Cannes to see the new Murder on the Orient Express movie, and this is what we got: Yes, this really is Cannes, or at least ...

We have friends of Chang coming over from Korea, and so we took them to Nice. Here's yesterday's view of it's beach, with an ex...

The dogs of our neighbors, Chang, our hill, the "mont de Théoule," (still in the sun) and, in the background, "la baie d...

(Yes, we're back in France, but we're not quite done with Pompeii, stay tuned)

...the view from the Pic de l'Ours across the bay of Cannes, with the city of Cannes on the shoreline and the city of Nice (next bay, ...

...at the nearby restaurant Le Mizuna in Mandelieu.