If skate-sailing is your thing and Paris your kind of town, I have the perfect location for you. By all means, try doing this on Quai d'Orsay next to the Air France terminal. You'll have the fresh wind from the Seine, more than enough space for maneuver and the attention of both tourists and motorists. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you where to get the gear (I don't know). But surely, if skate-sailing is your thing, you do. So, smooth sailing!
While Ree
is enjoying her wine or Pellegrino or whatever,
I'm salivating over that ball of mozzarella di bufala.
I'm almost ashamed to admit that
I'd never tried this kind of mozzarella before. It is
kind of watery, but the taste is wonderfully fresh...
WHAT: Mozzarella di Bufala
WHERE: Le Volte: Piazza Rondanini, 47 Roma 00186.
 If the above title makes you go "¿ La Hora de QUÉ?", you're not alone. Only a short year ago, I myself did not know what "horchata" meant, much less what it tasted like.
As it turns out, it tastes pretty good. If you're in Madrid, dubious, I'll tell you were to go to order a glass that will remove all your doubts...
Read the rest of: "La Hora de Horchata"» Somebody on the site mentioned that Le Grand Comptoir
is one of the few restaurants in Montreal with friendly,
non-pretentious “single person" table service and I would
agree with them. What I mean by that is that going there by yourself doesn't necessarily present you with the typical dining-alone nuisances, like having to sit at the counter and thus forgo being able to relax in a chair, or being subjected to attitude from the host(ess) and the server. (After all, you're taking up a whole table and you'll only leave one person's tip!)
Like I said, Le Grand Comptoir
is a fortunate exception to those experiences.
You can go there alone at almost any time of day
(except the lunch hour: too busy) and find more
than a handful of individual tables to choose from...
Read the rest of: "Alone at Le Grand Comptoir"» 
Fondue in Barcelona? Well, why the hell not? That's what we said when after a five-minute deliberation involving counting dining patrons and talking to a kitchen employee on a cigarette break, we decided to "go for it".
Apparently approving of our decision, the ultra-modern glass door slid away automatically, and with that we stepped inside "GADES"...
Read the rest of: "Fondue'ing at Gades in Barcelona"»  When you get tired of all the "typical" Spanish food, when you want small dishes (but... please, no more tapas!), when you want to try something eclectic yet vaguely Spanish-themed, you might want to consider eating at Bazaar on the southern fringes of Madrid's Chueca.
Read the rest of: "Bazaar in Madrid"»  I've already talked about
my abnormal interest in this very important meal and
how those morning calories are hard to come by in Madrid. Well, given
that nobody here eats much in the morning, you might as well do as the
Madrileños do - that is, eat only un poco. But where?...
Read the rest of: "Why Faborit is my Favorite. Reason #1: Breakfast"» 
Walking along Paseo del Prado yesterday, I couldn't help but notice all those kiosks and stands filled with books. Bookish types were swarming around them like insects.
So, I browsed a little bit and even though most of the material on display was clearly junk, I had to remind myself more than once about airline weight restrictions - otherwise, I would already have in my possession various 2€ encyclopedias and sub--10€ hard-cover editions of literary classics published in the 70's.
I couldn't figure out the exact dates for this event, but it looks like the stalls will be there for at least a few more weeks.
From May 31st until June 4th, Montrealers and those who find themselves at the 45th parallel will
be able to enjoy the annual jamboree of electronic music and "new technologies" called MUTEK.
This year, the only name I recognize on the program is that of Richie Hawtin (he plays outdoors in Parc
Jean-Drapeau on the 4th).
That either says something about the festival's inability to attract more headliners
or, more likely, it says something about how clueless I've become on the subject of electronic music.
Or, possibly, it says both.
Anyway, you now have less than a week to get to Montreal and catch the groove:
www.mutek.ca.
If you are (like some of the contributors to this site) a
designer, a musician, a video artist or anybody else with
a penchant for using Apple computers, I have just
the right idea of your September vacation.
Open up your iCal and mark the dates in your favorite color:
from 12th to 16th of September you are going to be in Paris,
checking out new super-slim screens, extra-mighty mice
and nanoscale iPod's all while chatting with your European kin.
I am reminded that last year the event didn't feature any major
announcements from the company. There were no keynote speeches
either. But the year before, it did! So, your guess is as good
is mine on whether we'll see anything major announced in Paris
this year. I doubt it matters, though, because the event primarily
serves as a bonne excuse for going to France for "professional"
reasons. Perhaps, I don't need to tell you that it's tax deductible
and if worst comes to worst, you won't regret this trip as much
next April.
www.apple-expo.com
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