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In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it’s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. — Roman Polanski
Tag: walk
London Walks
London Walks. Earn your blisters.
Words of One Syllable Dept.
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments: In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks and robbed them in broad daylight, with no visible attempt at disguise. He was arrested later that night, less than an hour after videotapes of him taken from surveillance cameras … Continue reading Words of One Syllable Dept.
Trying for normal
It’s hard to decide now how to get back to normal travel-blogging, but I’m going to try. Our taxi driver this afternoon assured me that Londoners are a bit used to “this sort of thing,” what with the IRA in the ‘80s and ‘90s. He said he was at the taxi rank in front of … Continue reading Trying for normal
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