The Eastside View

Eastside Road, March 30, 2012— B ACK FROM A TRIP to find in the mail a new novel by an old friend whom we see too rarely, Sumner Carnahan...

Park & Suites Ëlegance la Ciotat, La Ciotat, France, March 18, 2012— W E HAVE DRIVEN , in the last week or so, about 1500 kilometers, cr...

Montpellier, March 17, 2012— My old friend John Rockwell said it well, years ago: “Einstein was like nothing I had ever encountered. For...

Hôtel Du Puy d'Alon, Souillac, March 14, 2012—   I T OCCURS TO ME I've written nothing about the hotels. We've stayed in a lo...

Hotel Bristol, Luxembourg, March 11, 2012— Historical Luxembourg. Red: present-day Luxembourg; two blue areas at bottom: lost to France; blu...

Vianden, Luxembourg, March 8, 2012 U P PAST THE WALL and to the Château today. The Romans built a fort up there late during their Empire,...

 Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles, Vianden, Luxembourg, March 8, 2012 Y ESTERDAY , AFTER HAVING WALKED eighty-five kilometers on the GR-5 from S...

Evolution of stegosaur to elk: Children's mural on retaining wall, Welchershausen, Germany Oberhausen, Belgium, March 5, 2012— W E STAYE...

From Google Earth: the forest in which we were lost today Oberhausen, Belgium, March 4, 2012— W E CHEATED A BIT yesterday — you see Curtis,...

bunker in the distance, field near Burg-Reuland Burg-Reuland, Belgium, March 3, 2012— I' VE NEVER REALLY understood the point of Belgiu...

Vielsalm, Belgium, March 2, 2012— W ALKING, STROLLING, RAMBLING : those are all very nice. But it occurs to me today that what we're doi...

 Epen, February 28 , 2012— T HIS HAS BEEN  a particularly nice stay, the last couple or three days in our beloved Netherlands — as always, I...

Epen, February 28, 2012 On yesterday's ramble through the fields along the river Geul we came upon a poem engraved on a tablet set out i...

Epen, Feb. 27,2012— W E VISITED AN ACQUAINTANCE yesterday in her twostorey brick bungalow set among oaks, beeches, and birches in a semirur...

Puiflijk, February 26—   I QUIT SMOKING in 1968, after sixteen years of mostly pipe-smoking. It wasn't too hard, though I'd been a ...

In flight, February 23, 2011— T HIRTY IN THE New World, including two in Baja California. Twenty-six, I think, in Europe; seven in the Pa...

My Valentine, on her 76th birthday in Venice (photo: Francesca Źivny) Eastside Road, February 14, 2012— I DON'T CARE what Pope Paul VI ...

Marco Pannucio (Gatsby), Susannah Biller (Daisy), Julienne Walker (Jordan), Jason Detweiler (Nick), Daniel Snyder (Tom) (photo: Steve DiBart...

Eastside Road, January 29, 2012— Lindsey on the trail O N THE ROAD AGAIN , as you see. The last week of January is so often a beautiful fals...