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Cities can get angry. This isn't the first time it's happened to me. New York threw me out once. Los Angeles and I left on mutually hostile terms, though we've since made up. Cities have personalities just like people, and to really be part of a city your personalities have to mesh, you have to find each other on your own terms everyday. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry even second" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" title="From Here We Go Sublime"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/iceland.jpg" alt="From Here We Go Sublime" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2011/05/from-here-we-go-sublime" class="u-url" title="From Here We Go Sublime">From Here We Go Sublime</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-05-29T02:35:00">May <span>29, 2011</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.861291192122714">48.861291192122714</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3879055928465776">2.3879055928465776</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - Just arrived Dulles-Reykjavik-Paris, 26-hour trip, no sleep. I see things. I see a grizzly looking Spaniard selling old railway lanterns at the flea market, I see muslim men playing basketball in skull caps, I see a Michael Faraday experiment with bulbs and wires enclosed in glass that turns out to be just an elevator. I see a stout Frenchwoman closing the gates of Pere Lachaise, no more dead, we've had enough of you. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry odd third" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/06/cadenza" title="Cadenza"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/parisglow.jpg" alt="Cadenza" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/06/cadenza" class="u-url" title="Cadenza">Cadenza</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-06T11:01:26">June <span>6, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86345844378468">48.86345844378468</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610842224649087">2.3610842224649087</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - Paris - Outside it's raining. Beads of water form on the window in front of me. The glow of the unseen sun is fading behind midnight blue clouds and darkening sky. An old man in a butcher apron selling oysters under an awning smokes a cigarette and watches the mothers and children walking home with bags of groceries. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry even first" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/i-dont-sleep-i-dream" title="I Don't Sleep I Dream"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/freudsoffice.jpg" alt="I Don't Sleep I Dream" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/i-dont-sleep-i-dream" class="u-url" title="I Don't Sleep I Dream">I Don’t Sleep I Dream</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-28T15:00:32">May <span>28, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Vienna</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/austria/" title="travel writing from Austria">Austria</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.209967769727996">48.209967769727996</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="16.370648143396814">16.370648143396814</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - How can Freud's former residence in Vienna lack a couch? The closest thing is up against the wall, behind a small writing desk in what was then the waiting room — a small divan where one might stare at the patternless ceiling until the patterns emerge as it were. “Tell me about it,” he began. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry odd second" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/unreflected" title="Unreflected"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/selfportraitconvex.jpg" alt="Unreflected" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/unreflected" class="u-url" title="Unreflected">Unreflected</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-27T23:55:46">May <span>27, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Vienna</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/austria/" title="travel writing from Austria">Austria</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.209967769727996">48.209967769727996</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="16.370648143396814">16.370648143396814</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - The Kunsthistorisches Museum contains probably the best collection of art outside of France — Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Raphael, Velazquez, Bruegel and a certain Italian for whom I have a festering personal obsession, which shall be addressed shortly — and what's remarkable about this magnificent assemblage is that the vast majority of it was once the Hapsburg's private collection. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry even third" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/four-minutes-thirty-three-seconds" title="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/wallofnames.jpg" alt="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/four-minutes-thirty-three-seconds" class="u-url" title="Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds">Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-26T14:50:24">May <span>26, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Prague</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/czech-republic/" title="travel writing from Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="50.089846390847725">50.089846390847725</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.418117998023494">14.418117998023494</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - Just north of Prague's old town square and east of the River Vltava is Josefov, the old Jewish quarter of Prague. The Pinkas Synagogue in Josefov is an unassuming pale, sand-colored building with a slightly sunken entrance. Inside is a small alter and little else. The floor is bare; there are no places for worshipers to sit. The synagogue is little more than walls. And on the walls inscribed in extremely small print are the names of the 77,297 Jewish citizens of Bohemia and Moravia who died in the Holocaust.
- - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry odd first" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/inside-and-out" title="Inside and Out"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/krumlovcastleatnight.jpg" alt="Inside and Out" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/inside-and-out" class="u-url" title="Inside and Out">Inside and Out</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-25T17:45:12">May <span>25, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Cesky Krumlov</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/czech-republic/" title="travel writing from Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.81053057801549">48.81053057801549</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.317352769766009">14.317352769766009</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - Chasing Egon Schiele: The attention to detail that makes the difference between a building and work of art was everywhere in Cesky Krumlov, from the delicate pink and red complements of a fine dovetailed corner, to the white plaster and oak beams of the Egon Schiele museum, which, despite geometric differences, looked not unlike the Globe Theatre in London. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry even second" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/king-carrot-flowers-part-two" title="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sloveniachurch.jpg" alt="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/king-carrot-flowers-part-two" class="u-url" title="The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two">The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-22T20:44:33">May <span>22, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Bled</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/slovenia/" title="travel writing from Slovenia">Slovenia</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="46.365209982615575">46.365209982615575</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.109942911091283">14.109942911091283</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - There is a roughly 200km loop of road that leads northwest out of Bled, through a pass in the Julian Alps and then down the other side, twisting and winding back toward Bled by way of craggy canyons, small hamlets and crystalline rivers. We set out sometime after breakfast. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry odd third" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/ghost" title="Ghost"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/trogirnight.jpg" alt="Ghost" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/ghost" class="u-url" title="Ghost">Ghost</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-19T19:37:07">May <span>19, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Ljubljana</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/slovenia/" title="travel writing from Slovenia">Slovenia</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="46.05085985632457">46.05085985632457</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="14.50674891269926">14.50674891269926</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - Like Dubrovnik, Trogir is a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir's wall has largely crumbled away or been removed. Still, it has the gorgeous narrow cobblestone streets, arched doorways and towering forts that give all Dalmatian towns their Rapunzel-like fairly tale quality. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry even first" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/feel-good-lost" title="Feel Good Lost"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/dubrovnik.jpg" alt="Feel Good Lost" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/feel-good-lost" class="u-url" title="Feel Good Lost">Feel Good Lost</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-18T00:38:37">May <span>18, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Dubrovnik</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/croatia/" title="travel writing from Croatia">Croatia</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.64133838429178">42.64133838429178</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="18.10905217872305">18.10905217872305</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - Dubrovnik, Croatia was heavily shelled during the Bosnian conflict and roughly 65 percent of its buildings were hit, built for the most part you'd never know it. Most of the buildings date from about 1468, though some were destroyed in the great earthquake of 1667, still, by and large, the city looks as it did in the fifteenth century. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry odd second" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/blue-milk" title="Blue Milk"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/plitvice.jpg" alt="Blue Milk" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/blue-milk" class="u-url" title="Blue Milk">Blue Milk</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-16T00:32:27">May <span>16, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Dubrovnik</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/croatia/" title="travel writing from Croatia">Croatia</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.64133838429178">42.64133838429178</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="18.10905217872305">18.10905217872305</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - It's hard to understand, standing on the banks of such crystalline, cerulean lakes, whose dazzling colors come from the mineral rich silt runoff of glaciers, that the largest European conflict since world war two began here, at Like Plitvice Croatia. But indeed this is where the first shots were fired on Easter Sunday in 1991 and the first casualty was a park policeman. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry even third" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/refracted-light-and-grace" title="Refracted Light and Grace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/castlehillbuda.jpg" alt="Refracted Light and Grace" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/refracted-light-and-grace" class="u-url" title="Refracted Light and Grace">Refracted Light and Grace</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-11T00:26:59">May <span>11, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Budapest</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/hungary/" title="travel writing from Hungary">Hungary</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="47.483800862289485">47.483800862289485</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="19.062137601106286">19.062137601106286</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - Evening, after dinner, outside on the balcony, smoking cigarettes and contemplating the nightscape of Buda's Castle Hill rising up out of its own golden reflection in the shimmering Danube waters. The drone of car horns in the distance and the electric tram squealing as it pulls out of the station below on the river a boat slowly churns upstream... - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry odd first" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2006/05/london-calling" title="London Calling"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/londonthames.jpg" alt="London Calling" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2006/05/london-calling" class="u-url" title="London Calling">London Calling</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-05-10T00:16:42">May <span>10, 2006</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">London</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/united-kingdom/" title="travel writing from United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="51.55119204682159">51.55119204682159</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-0.1495599746495864">-0.1495599746495864</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - London: The British don't want me -- no money, no proof I'm leaving and no real reason for coming, good lord, I must be a vagabond, up to no good, surely. Eventually the customs agent relents and lets me in, a favor I repay by nearly burning down one of London's bigger parks. Seriously. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry even second" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/seinetower.jpg" alt="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" class="u-url" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine">Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-08T18:30:13">November <span>8, 2005</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.863514907961644">48.863514907961644</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610734936288558">2.3610734936288558</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - Well it's my last night here in Paris and I've chosen to return to the best restaurant we've been to so far, an Iraqi restaurant in a Marais. I am using all my willpower right now to avoid having a political outburst re the quality of Iraqi food versus the intelligence of George Bush etc etc. I'm traveling; I don't want to get into politics except to say that my dislike for the current El Presidente was no small factor in my decision to go abroad. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry odd third" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2005/11/bury-your-dead" title="Bury Your Dead"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscatacombs.jpg" alt="Bury Your Dead" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2005/11/bury-your-dead" class="u-url" title="Bury Your Dead">Bury Your Dead</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-06T18:28:52">November <span>6, 2005</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.88623656623962">48.88623656623962</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.343757152231122">2.343757152231122</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - I would like to say that the catacombs of Paris had some spectacular effect on me seeing that I strolled through human remains, skulls and femurs mainly, "decoratively arranged," but the truth is, after you get over the initial shock of seeing a skull, well, it turns out you can get adjusted to just about anything. Maybe that in and off itself is the scary part. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry even first" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2005/11/houses-we-live" title="The Houses We Live In"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscityscape.jpg" alt="The Houses We Live In" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2005/11/houses-we-live" class="u-url" title="The Houses We Live In">The Houses We Live In</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-01T10:40:00">November <span>1, 2005</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86409366210158">48.86409366210158</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3615670200875383">2.3615670200875383</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - I've been thinking the last couple of days about something Bill's dad said to me before I left. I'm paraphrasing here since I don't remember the exact phrasing he used, but something to the effect of "people are essentially the same everywhere, they just build their houses differently." Indeed, Parisian architecture is completely unlike anything in America. Perhaps more than any other single element, architecture reflects culture and the ideas of the people that make up culture. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry odd second" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" title="Sainte Chapelle"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/saintechapelle.jpg" alt="Sainte Chapelle" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" class="u-url" title="Sainte Chapelle">Sainte Chapelle</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-28T18:25:56">October <span>28, 2005</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.85556694853056">48.85556694853056</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3452591892792514">2.3452591892792514</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - Sainte Chapelle was interesting to see after the modern, conceptual art stuff at the Pompidou, rather than simple stained glass, Sainte Chapelle felt quite conceptual. In a sense the entire Bible (i.e. all history from that perspective) is unfolding simultaneously, quite a so-called post-modern idea if you think about it. And yet it was conceived and executed over 800 years ago. Kind of kicks a lot pretentious modern art in its collective ass. - </span> - </p> - </article> - <article class="h-entry hentry even third" itemscope itemType="http://schema.org/Article"> - <div class="post--image"> - <a href="/jrnl/2005/10/living-railway-car" title="Living in a Railway Car"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sacrecoeur.jpg" alt="Living in a Railway Car" class="u-photo post-image" itemprop="image" /></a> - </div> - <h2 class="p-name entry-title post--title" itemprop="headline"><a href="/jrnl/2005/10/living-railway-car" class="u-url" title="Living in a Railway Car">Living in a Railway Car</a></h2> - <p class="p-author author hide" itemprop="author"><span class="byline-author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Scott Gilbertson</span></span></p> - <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-24T11:20:54">October <span>24, 2005</span></time> - <p> - <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> - <span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/jrnl/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a> - <span style="display: none;" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates"> - <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.86416424141684">48.86416424141684</data> - <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3617815968086964">2.3617815968086964</data> - </span> - </span> – - <span class="p-summary entry-summary hyphenate" itemprop="description"> - This French apartment is more like a railway sleeper car than apartment proper. Maybe fifteen feet long and only three feet wide at the ceiling. More like five feet wide at the floor, but, because it's an attic, the outer wall slopes in and you lose two feet by the time you get to the ceiling. 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