Tocqueville, we have arrived! I’m not sure what Tocqueville would have made of the Euromess, but I think it’s pretty easy to guess. On the other hand, I think I may have discovered part of the core financial problem here in France. Sitting in the lobby of our hotel, waiting for a room to become […]
OK, so we’re on the first leg of our flight to Paris, where I’ve found that my two French phrase books (the aptly-titled French Phrase Book as well as Just Enough French) don’t contain such handy questions as “What do you think are the possible sovereign consequences of replacing the European Financial Stability Facility with […]
Important events and circumstances have combined in such a way that in a few short hours I will be boarding an airliner on my way to the Continent, to witness first-hand the turmoil of fiscal and sovereign upheaval caused by the ever-imminent collapse of the Eurozone, and to report on it here to you. OK, […]
We saw “Anything Goes” last night — what an absolute delight. Yes, the play was light in content, and some of the jokes and lines were groaners and, I suspect, came from the original 1934 version — but it was still a pleasure, and most everyone left the theatre smiling and whistling. A large reason […]
I fell in love with live theater back in college. My freshman year at BYU, I took a semester of Opera Workshop, a class whose purpose was to gather enough non-music majors with sufficient singing skills so as to fill up all the chorus positions in an opera production. We did a full production “Die […]
I wanted to do a ‘day 7’ post last night, but I discovered that I was down to 15 minutes left on my on-ship wi-fi account, and they weren’t letting me buy any more minutes. I used those 15 minutes up just trying to change our seats for our flights home today, which should give […]
Next-to-the-last day of the cruise. Spent the whole day at sea today, on our way from St. Thomas to the Bahamas, sailing past and north of our previous stops at Puerto Rico and Grand Turk. This meant more panels and activities today, and some great panels they were, including one on the realities of political […]
Almost wrote “day 6” up there, but then realized I was a bit ahead of myself. Arrived in St. Thomas (USVI) relatively early this morning — around 7:30 or so. Sandra and I opted for a bit more leisurely activity today: a bus tour of parts of Charlotte Amalie (the capital of St. Thomas) and […]
At least, I think it’s day 4. The days are all starting to blur a bit; I’m grateful the ship changes the carpets in the elevators every day to let you know which day it is, or I’d be even more blurred. Great times, great sessions. Andrew McCarthy and John Yoo; Bernard Lewis and Victor […]
The internet is still flaky and slow (and will undoubtedly be so until we arrive back in Florida on Saturday). Another great day, which started with our ship arriving in port for the first time since leaving Florida on Saturday: Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos. This morning, Sandra & I went ‘power snorkeling’ (think: snorkeling […]
