What did The Idiot do during the waning days of a wet, gray winter in Paris? Think tasty comfort food, innovative museum exhibits and outings with Baby Gaga, his 5.5-year-old granddaughter, and Baby Gogo, his 2.9-year-old grandson.
The Idiot couldn’t resist a quick trip to Portugal after a friend from Australia, who recently spent nine months eating his way around the world, contended that “my favourite, exciting restaurant of the entire circumnavigation of the globe is BAHR, which stands for Barrio Alto Hotel Restaurante, in Lisbon.” The Idiot kicked things off at BAHR with lunch, which features a daily “Menu de Mercado” (Market Menu), on the terrace of the hotel’s rooftop restaurant that opened in 2019. He … →
Baby Gaga, The Idiot’s 5.35-year-old granddaughter, has insisted on taking charge of all social planning in Paris because “I live here permanently now and you still have an American accent.” Here are some of the places she took The Idiot in late January.
The Idiot, who spent twenty years trekking around the Mediterranean Sea, is considering a walk of the same distance (about 16,000 kilometers or 10,000 miles) around the Arctic Circle after a visit to Tromsø, Norway.
When The Idiot didn’t see original versions of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” at the ongoing exhibition of his paintings at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, he flew to Oslo to visit the newish (October 2021) Munch Museum to catch them there.
Why has The Idiot been making nocturnal forays throughout Paris during winter-dark January?
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