Family, friends, and I have been patients in emergency rooms (ER’s) many times. I work in Quality and Patient Safety in a large hospital, and my office overlooks the ER parking lot. My recent experience in a French ER for a dislocated finger has allowed me to reflect on how all ER’s can treat patients …
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Sep 12
Other Sights and Sounds from St. Rémy
The injury to my hand, coupled with a bad reaction to the ibuprofen and naproxen I took to manage the pain, did a number on the last two days in St. Rémy-De-Provence. However, we were able to do some interesting things. Friday we walked to the Roman ruins of Glanum, about a mile from our …
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Sep 09
Ouch
Friends, this looks worse than it actually is. Yesterday we went to a medieval village called Les Baux. The views of the valley were stunning, and the site had numerous artifacts, such as battering rams and trebuchets. Just as we were about to exit, I slipped and fell. The only thing damaged was my left …
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Sep 07
Bienvenue à St. Rémy de Provence
Our next stop on the tour is St. Rémy de Provence, a cute little town. Julian observed that if Disney wanted to clone a French town for a theme park, this would be the one. The town has several plazas and is encircled by a ring road. It deals heavily in the tourist and expat …
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Sep 05
Let there be Lumiere
(Lumière is the French word for light.) Yesterday’s outing included a trip to the Lumière Museum in Lyon. The Lumière family, particularly brothers Auguste and Louis, were instrumental in the early days of cinema. While Edison’s kinetoscope showed movies to individuals (similar to a peep show), les frères Lumière pioneered cameras and projection equipment so the …
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Sep 05
Foodie Day in Lyon
Since most of the museums were closed today, this was our day to do foodie stuff. The first stop was the Galeries Lafayette at the Part Dieu shopping center. Unfortunately, the Galeries Lafayette here does not have the killer food hall that the one in Paris has. We found another store called the Cook Me …
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Sep 04
Equal Time
It occurred to me that there may be male readers of this blog who count themselves in the Cult of Cute Shoes. Granted, none of you has fessed up, but I’m posting this just for you. This is the display of a shoe store around the corner from our hotel in Lyon.
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Sep 04
More for my Cronies in the Cult of Cute Shoes
Don’t drool over these too much, ladies. These are 1/3 to 1/2 scale models that reside in a museum of miniatures and film. On our way back to the hotel last night we passed a store with these boots for sale: Note the relatively diminutive heel on the furry ones. You can tell this shop …
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Sep 02
Lollygagging around Lyon
We landed in Lyon mid-day on Thursday and successfully negotiated the trains from the airport to the rental flat. Once we dropped off our luggage, it was time to explore. The city is very walkable, in some ways even more so than Paris. On the Presqu’Ile (the peninsula between the Rhône and Saône Rivers where …
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Sep 02
Seen on a Building in Lyon
This goes out to all my Star Wars geek friends. You know who you are…For those of you who’ve forgotten your high school French, it says: “Anakin Skywalker was not born in this house, never lived here, and didn’t die here, either.”
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