PARIS

I feel like I've been all over the place these past few months and that's because I HAVE. This blog is winding down, and with that I'm scrambling to put together my last few posts. Luckily, this is the last of the travel spots that has been hanging over my head, and now feels like it was ages ago, considering this happened before my jaunt around Scotland.

We spent a week in Paris in a lovely, tiny flat in Menilmontant. We used Velib to bike around the city, and managed to cover quite a lot of territory. We went to almost all the major museums, ate some delicious food, had some great wine, and entirely too much cheese. The sun came out and warmed us as we read by the Seine and drank wine in the parks (do I sound #abroad enough for you?).

WINE AND LITERATURE: A TALK AND TASTING

This has been a suuuuuuper slow first week that I think I slept at least 60% of, but last night we got a chance to celebrate our triumphant return with a wine tasting in Topsham. I don't mean to brag, but I'm a preeeetty heavy connoisseur of wines less than seven dollars, so it was nice to eat meat and cheese and pizza while checking out how the other half lives. If you want my hastily scribbled notes based on a complete ignorance of fine wine, keep reading.

BARCELONA: WINE AND CHEESE

I'm writing this today because I've spent the entire weekend in the same pair of boxers writing two papers, so it seems potent to reflect on a time when I had a least a little bit of class. This was the last thing I did in Barcelona before heading over to the bus station, and it was a pretty great memory to leave on.