Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis, and has killed thousands…It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant, it disorganizes and ruins the family… – Barnaby Conrad...

Awesome, awesome graffiti in Barcelona. There are two types I’ve been enjoying: shop door and paste on. All the shops of roll down metal door and, in an apparent attempt to discourage would be artless taggers, the owners have...

Visits to the Dali museum in Figueres and to Dali’s house in Cadaques grew my appreciation for the artist. Previously, I’d regarded him as a bit of a niche artist, darling of the acid-trippers, but otherwise a one-trick pony....

If you’ve been to Barcelona, it’s changed since you were here. Really. Even if you were here last week. Of course, the old town is still an ant farm of twisting, impossibly narrow alley-like streets, a warren of canyons...

We made it to Barcelona, stayed with some couchsurfers, hiked, went to the Dali museum, the beach, blah blah blah. OK, now let me tell you about this toilet. It’s in our hotel room here in the tiny resort...

Michelle and I frolicked in the Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain in Nice today. We so prefer museums where they let you take photos (no flash, bien sur), and this one was perfect for it, because they had...

Brief break from our travelogue for a bit of geekery. Two new technologies that I’m psyched to try out: My peeps back at Microsoft have released some of the features that I was working on when I was there,...

We spent a tactical night in Grenoble (laundry, boiling eggs for the road, early to bed) and rose early for a quick sprint through the foothills of the Alps to the Southern coast of France, la Cote D’Azur. Our...

"Gourmets, eat your heart out, Lyon is the gastronomic capital of France with a lavish table of piggy-driven dishes and delicacies to savour, and a fabulous bounty of eating spaces on which to do it." So says The Lonely...

Just posted a bit about honey in France to the bee blog: C’est Beaucoup Du Miel. In it, I mention we met some horses (and a braying donkey, by the way). They had a very unusual (to me) build....