Instructions for an impromptu 10 euro picnic in France: Buy a baguette, a soft cheese, and a hard cheese. This constitutes your main course. Add a box of Petits Ecolier cookies for dessert. Pick out a bottle of red wine, as you won’t be able to chill a white or rosé. Don’t worry about not having a bottle-opener — it’s France, so most grocery stores have a courtesy bottle opener at the cash register that you can use after buying…
Exploring Lyon There’s this ancient astronomical clock in the Lyon cathedral. It’s gorgeous and amazingly ornate but didn’t work when I saw it in December 2017 because people had destroyed its inner mechanisms a couple times throughout history. Isn’t that wild? I wondered what would make someone wreck the clock, and thought maybe they wanted to freeze time. I could sympathize–– I was leaving Europe in a couple weeks so I wanted to freeze time, too, and keep on traveling….