4/20/2009 Paris is good for families! Paris is like a whore you are in love with, you know that she will take your money and cheat you, her promises will be broke, but you still think she is beautiful and know that you will be back. I saw much of the tourist Paris without going [...]
Vagobond dream machine
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 was [...]
Panhandling in Paris
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 put [...]
Paris is a whore
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. In [...]
The French countryside
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 the way. [...]
Vagobond in Bordeaux, France
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. Here is a list of all the hotels in Bordeaux with thousands of user reviews and multi site price comparisons. Yes, [...]
