Tag Archives: swimming

Riis Park – August 17, 2024

August 23, 2024 – 10:29 am

At the beach Yesterday Sea Waves Wind Warm Sand Shifts Beneath my feet

By Peter | Posted in Poetry, sea | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Swimming In The Seine 1985

August 3, 2024 – 6:37 pm

In the summer of 1985 I rode my Vespa 150 east from Paris along the Seine until reaching a strand of strand past Melun. The temperature was warm and I waded into the river. It smelled of algae, but I plunged into the waters. Not pleasant, but not unpleasant, then again as a child in […]

By Peter | Posted in Nature, PARIS | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Mea Culpa

September 25, 2011 – 11:45 am

as packed with Russians and the gamblers playing 21 looked like losers. 1000 Euros would vanish fast in a bad crowd. We retreated to the Hotel de Paris and I drank a gin-tonic. Alex Cohort opted for an Armagnac. It had been bottled well back in the last century. Charles glowed with the osmosic influx […]

By Peter | Posted in europe, Internet, Travel | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)