All Posts Tagged With: "french cycling gourmet"

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French Life Travel Nightmare – Part One

DISCLAIMER: As you may know, I am not just a writer. I am an author. Someone who has written a book. And when I started this blog, I made a solemn vow(and are’nt they the best kind?) never to directly use any riveting prose from my book(the one that I wrote, which makes me an […]

8Sep2010 | | 6 comments | Continued
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French Food

French Food. Gourmet food. Can be. Often is. But,like any activity that blends unequal parts of human involvement,perishable ingredients,and pictures of dead Presidents, there are levels of quality. The Penthouse. The Mezzanine. The Basement. This is a Tale of the basement It begins in a quaint(and,are’nt they all?)French roadside “bistro.” Think – more than a […]

4Aug2010 | | 2 comments | Continued
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BG and the Tour de France

Rolling Relations We pass each other every Summer. My cycling brothers and I. Surfing the same roads. For different reasons. They’re after speed. I’m after experience. They’re after how many  kilometers in a day. I’m after memorable meetings. Alas(for them) dear reader, the Tour de France does not stop to smell the roses. It is […]

18Jul2010 | | 7 comments | Continued