Category: culture
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Paris: Food Market
We spent one morning exploring a fresh food market. Things that don’t need refrigeration (mostly veg) were outside; meats, fish and cheese were inside. A few interesting things: 1. French people always ask where something was grown or produced because different regions or countries have different techniques and rules (eg, what is considered organic). Our…
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Paris: More Food!
I don’t want to leave you with the impression we only ate desserts! Above are some restaurant meals. Every meal had three courses: starter (entrée in French), main course (plat) and dessert. Wine is offered at each meal. We learned that schools also served three-course meals. Students paid according to ability, with the highest about…
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Paris: fashion!
I am not a fashionable person by any means, but I did notice a few things on this trip. One was that we just missed fashion week, so there were still folks in the business around with big traveling boxes of clothes. I noticed a lot of very large billboards with chic advertisements. Which, apparently,…
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Paris: oh, la la la la
I have been to Paris before, but not since 1989. While I saw some things in previous visits, many things were new to me. Plus, going as part of the Road Scholar tour allowed me to learn more things. One of the parts I loved was that our French tour guide (Agathe) told us things…
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Paris, France
Oh, how I love Paris! I am visiting now with my stepmom Saralyn, on a “Road Scholar” tour, snd I am reliving memories of being here with Henry in ‘88 and ‘89 on our honeymoon and in our first year of marriage. Right now, just some silly pictures, but I am learning so much! i…
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Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY I can’t get enough of ancient Egyptian art and culture. Most museums I have visited have a few relics. I know this is problematic- these relics belong to the people of Egypt, not (in this case) the people of Brooklyn. Yet, I admit to feeling joy that I have been exposed to this…
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Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY I wasn’t paying much attention when I walked into this exhibit. I thought I would see some of Picasso’s work and learn something about cubism. Rather, the exhibit was a critique of Picasso, mostly through the eyes of Hannah Gadsby, asserting that he was a misogynist who purported to want to see things…
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Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY Africa fashion I loved how the curator of this exhibit started this exhibit with information about colonialism. They noted which European countries colonized which sections/countries in Africa, and when freedom was achieved by each region. This impacts everything. According to one exhibit, cloth was introduced by the Europeans; Africans wove threads to make…
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Washington, DC
I remember my first trip to DC as a child, maybe in 1972ish, so I was 9ish. The airplanes and Dorothy’s red slippers in the Smithsonian, visiting the White House, hoping we would see President Nixon, and the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln monuments were my highlights. I recall my brother tripped an alarm at the…
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