Irena and I just spent a wonderful week in Paris (Nov. 23-29). Highlights included the usual tourist destinations—the Louve, D’Orsay, and Rodin museums, Eiffel Tower, Sacré-Cœur, Notre Dame, and Napoleon’s Tomb at the Hôtel National des Invalides—but just being in the City of Light itself was special. Our hotel in Montmartre provided a comfortable and convenient home. I now understand Gertrude Stein’s famous quote, “America is my country, and Paris is my hometown.”
Peter Mires 