We are continuing our re-watch of Eugene Levy’s show “The Reluctant Traveler,” it is just as entertaining the second time around. We watched episodes in Spain, and in Mexico. I of course sketched. In one episode he said something that is worth quoting. “You’re never too old to get aquatinted with the world you’re living…
Tag: food
This week in The Pearl – July 24, 2026
This has been a food heavy week so that makes it a good week. We have walked almost every day, which is good considering how we like to eat. One of my current reading objectives is to read French authors. Try as I might, Dumas’s serial style does not work, so I have started Peré…
This week ‘back’ in The Pearl – July 3, 2026
As we do so often on Friday mornings, we are both sitting at the table writing our blogs, it is a familiar routine. Last Friday was our last day in Paris so we went to lunch with Shirley and Jim at Marcello, it was a perfect place to wrap up all the good times we…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – June 30, 2026
“It went by so fast,” I said, as I rolled over to go to sleep last night. Almost two months in Europe is now behind us and we are heading home today. Yesterday afternoon, I sat at the cafe in front of our hotel in Helsinki, on a pedestrian street, and did this sketch looking…
This week “not” in The Pearl – June 18, 2026
We have been back in France now for 18 days, and in Paris for the last week. So how does it feel to be back in Paris? The first word that comes to my mind is ‘familiar.’ Though it is quite a different vibe than The Pearl, it does not seem foreign. I am doing…