Van Gogh transformed in Paris
Standing atop Montmartre, I gazed across Paris to the Eiffel Tower and tried to picture Vincent Van Gogh being happy here. He and the city were transforming.
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I just want to walk around Paris with you: “Midnight in Paris” came to life
I waited on the church steps for the magical Peugeot, the time-travel portal that whisked writer Gil Pender into 1920s Paris to meet Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Stein in “Midnight in Paris.”
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Steak, Paris, Evita: so many reasons to love Buenos Aires
Many cafés, curly wrought-iron balconies on elegant stone buildings, shady parks with benches under pink-flowering trees – Buenos Aires was indeed as lovely as we’d been led to think.
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Leonardo: from Mona to machine guns, we glimpsed his wide range of brilliance
“The Last Supper,” machine guns, “Mona Lisa,” armoured tanks, Vitruvian Man, crossbows, assault chariots. Rambling through Clos Lucé, Leonardo’s house and gardens in France, I pondered how one brilliant man’s soul embraced such beauty and beastliness.
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