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Mireille’s Musings
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January 8, 2024
Musing & Prevailing
Chocolate. Finishing a meal with a piece of chocolate makes all the difference, don’t you think? And chocolate cures many …
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January 4, 2023
Smiles Redux
The upside of travel is prodigious, and the surprises can put a smile on one’s face for days and weeks.
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July 13, 2022
Paris: Hot Times in the Old Town Summer 2022
Now that people have Paris in their travel plans again, it seems time for a few useful updated travel experience …
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June 24, 2022
Provence: Eight or Nine Wise Words 2022
If Easter then Memorial Day 2022, marked the return of Americans and tourists to Paris après le Covid (even though …
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January 6, 2022
Ac cent tchu ate
A few days before Christmas I was sitting in a funky hair salon I fancy on the Via dei Coronari …
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January 13, 2021
Bonjour, Bonne Année!
We like to “count our blessing instead of sheep” this time of year, and we all are blessed in some …
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January 9, 2020
S’Wonderful
Musing at this time of year, I am most reminded of how change is inevitable and life is such an …
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July 17, 2019
Dining at the World’s Best Restaurant: Don’t?
Edward and I traveled to Modena, Italy, to experience dining at Osteria Francescana, the world’s so-called best restaurant.
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April 16, 2019
On Notre-Dame
Remarkably, just last week I was inside the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Our visit will now serve as a momento mori.
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January 11, 2019
Mireille’s Meals of the Year
Luckily in the past year I have lived in or traveled to places I love. And I had to eat! …