November 16, 2015

Joie de vivre in the face of tragedy

Yesterday I visited the sites of the carnage in Paris.  Obviously it is all quite grim, but some of the tributes put a smile on my face.  These restaurants and bars were places of joy and will be so again some day.  Only in Paris?

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Emirates A380 gets 615 seats, keeps legroom

That’s a whole lot of seats, there, in Emirates new configuration that makes room for 98 more coach passengers by eliminating first class altogether, and shrinking business class by 18 seats.   The good news is that while the seats will not…

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Rochester, NY: City of Re-Invention

Gumbo’s location in Puzzle #140, as Travelling Canuck and GarryRF recognized, was the puzzling city of Rochester, New York—a city that has re-invented itself so many times that its nicknames tangle the tongue. It’s been the Young…

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Joie de vivre in the face of tragedy

Yesterday I visited the sites of the carnage in Paris.  Obviously it is all quite grim, but some of the tributes put a smile on my face.  These restaurants and bars were places of joy and will be so again some day.  Only in Paris?

Read More

Emirates A380 gets 615 seats, keeps legroom

That’s a whole lot of seats, there, in Emirates new configuration that makes room for 98 more coach passengers by eliminating first class altogether, and shrinking business class by 18 seats.   The good news is that while the seats will not…

Read More

Rochester, NY: City of Re-Invention

Gumbo’s location in Puzzle #140, as Travelling Canuck and GarryRF recognized, was the puzzling city of Rochester, New York—a city that has re-invented itself so many times that its nicknames tangle the tongue. It’s been the Young…

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