Locationless Living

As much as I love travel, and eating, and traveling when eating, I'm really not much of a foodie. Yes, I will occasionally take pictures of food that is put in front of me at restaurants. And yes, I did focus mainly on eating when I went to Paris. But I think Paris can bring [...]

Last time I was in Rome it was summer and it was beautiful and it was clogged with tourists. (Yes, I know. I am a tourist as well.) During my last trip I went hard at the Roman history, seeing the coliseum and enough ruins to make an archaeologist bored. That's what you have to [...]

Seeing the wall in Berlin is, as I have written before, a bit disappointing. After all, it's just a wall. It's much more impressive as an idea or a symbol than it could ever be as a mere physical divider. (That, however, doesn't keep people from bringing parts of it all over the world. There's [...]

There are a few universally recognizable symbols. The Eiffel tower is one of those. I say symbol, because even a crudely sketched silhouette of the tower is instantly recognizable. Symbols are simple images that instantly evoke a whole mess of associations. Three lines are all you need to make an Eiffel tower, and when people [...]

After I returned from Paris, people asked me what I did there. Although I did actually see a good amount of sites and attractions, I always answered with a simple: "I ate." Those trips to the catacombs, the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre were fun and eye opening and educational, but mostly they were attempts [...]

Paris seems all about the now. The sensuality, the food, the constant smoking, the beauty all around, it's all part of what seems like a worldview based on what's aesthetically pleasing. It's also where the French Revolution happened and priests were beheaded. It's where the existentialists hung out and debated how to get the most [...]