We made it as easy as possible for ourselves. The trip would be ending. We would be torn between leaving and seeing our furkids again. We (Ok, I) would be unfocused melodramatic queens. All we had do after arriving at the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (Frankfurt train station) from Paris was to catch a second local train Continue reading

Despite my misperceptions of the city, Paris still held an undeniable allure. The two and half days we had devoted to seeing the sights was nowhere near enough; it was the sheer immensity and variety of attractions of the French capital. The arrondissements (“districts”) of the City of Light, twenty in all back in 2015, Continue reading

The aim of the artistic technique of Trompe-l’œil is to deceive. Realistic imagery is used to create the illusion that objects exist in three dimensions. Much the same way that the romantic books and movies about Paris, the City of Light, beguiled me into an idealized image of the famous Capital. Continue reading