Patrick Leigh Fermor
May 22, 2021A couple of years ago, my father recommended me a book called A Time of Gifts By Patrick Leigh Fermor. The book chronicles the beginning of Fermor’s travels ...
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Finishing the Carpet
May 16, 2021For a long time, the upstairs bedrooms in our house have been unfinished. This is mostly because of a multitide of setbacks, starting with the discovery that...
Terrorism in Rambouillet
April 24, 2021Yesterday afternoon, a man of Tunisian origin attacked and killed Stephanie, an employee at the Rambouillet police station, with a knife. He cut her throat b...
Robert Massie’s Russian Rulers
March 27, 2021I’ve just finished Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie, and since it is the third and final biography of a Russian emperor or empress t...
How Long is the Eastern Continental Trail?
March 21, 2021I’ve finally gotten around to adding an important page to the Eastern Continental Trail website: the route distance page. This page responds to one of the mo...