2021

Bridging the geographic gap between Normandy and the city of brotherly love

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This blog post is not a review of the book, if anything it is an appreciation for the first-person narrative of her experience, how it reads to a 21st century traveler and the lessons that have been learned by both the travel industry and the world traveler having been besieged and transformed by technology, globalism and cultural shifts.

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This is one of those paragraphs I wish I was writer enough to put on paper. It makes me want to jump the next flight and head to France to share this experience.

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It was probably fitting that I awoke to a grey, drizzling morning to mark the transition from the beauty of the last few days in Paris to the Heart of Darkness.

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Left LA at noon on Friday and arrived in Vienna 3:00 pm Saturday. It’s like going from the 21st century to the 18th in 24 hours. From sunny LA to dark and colorless Vienna. Grand and stately but not glamorous and the cloud cover (like Paris) doesn’t help. In LA we always observe someone wearing shorts even if it’s “cold”; here people are wearing layers and they look like skiers to me but they’re just people.

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