After a little research and a little guesswork, the organizers of the tour managed to add a late-afternoon activity into today's schedule, and despite some delays and some more rain, we managed to get to everything pretty much right on time. The sunniest and clearest part of the day was, thankfully, during our self-guided tour of the Pont du Gard, ( Read more... )

Although today was almost as rainy as yesterday, Avignon somehow didn't suffer for it like Nice did. The walled inner city is the epitome of the quaint old Europe that I much prefer to resort-type places. I happily soaked in the cobblestone streets named after occupations, the unnecessarily large gothic stone palace that housed two centuries of ( Read more... )

January 15, 2011

Below I've posted a meme that's going around that I thought was pretty interesting. I'm interested in languages, which is pretty clear, but I also have a bit of an interest in dialects and accents. It's interesting to note different vowel shapes and how and why they evolved differently in different parts of the world, or even this ( Read more... )

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