Tweet 4/18/09 Perhaps the highlight of this trip (with the possible exception of panhandling in Paris) was having the chance to make a friendship that has existed only virtually for the past several years into a real life one. My visit with Isabelle Aubert Baudron and then spending some time with her ex-husband, Jean Louis [...]
Panhandling in Paris
Tweet 4/17/09 I should have gotten a picture but it didn’t work out. I was walking around today penniless and found a pretty nice suit coat and was already wearing my fedora. I reached in my pocket and found my harmonica and thought waht the hell, maybe Paris will take care of me if I [...]
Paris is a whore
Tweet 4/17/09 My banks have essentially raped me in Paris. Here is the latest example: I need to get from Paris to Rotterdam in Holland. I checked online and the price for a bus, the cheapest fare was 35 Euros. Well, having run into problems before, I usually carry a little bit of emergency cash. [...]
The French countryside
Tweet 4/16/09 I’m proud of catching the Madonna in these pictures, can you find her? I left Bordeaux to head to my friend Izzy’s in the small city of Thouars but the only way to get there was to have a five hour wait in Bordeaux or to wait for five hours somewhere else along [...]
Vagobond in Bordeaux
Tweet 4/16/09 Okay, I’m taking the piss a little bit here, but I thought Bordeaux overall was not a very groovy place. It had a nice free museum, the Musee d’Aquitaine with lots of anthropology stuff. Yes, this is an exhibit of the past in a museum…. It had some pretty buildings. It had some [...]
More rain
Tweet [ad#World Nomad 1]Even though it was raining when I went through these places and so I didn’t stay…I liked the feel of them. These were perhaps the most magical areas I’ve been through in Europe so far. Very different places in different countries with different cultures, but unified by being Basque. The Numbers inThe [...]
