This just in from APF, amazing! How did they get onto this so fast?–David and Alison APR, Paris: Pope Benedict XVI Gives the…
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Andrew Riggsby, Professor of Classics and Art History at The University of Texas, Austin is an expert on Rome and Roman history (among the…
Yours truly checking out the hunters' blinds about a third of the way up the Pyrenees. Photo: copyright Alison Harris "Pleased" is understatement: I am…
Paris to the Pyrenees: Literary Lunch in Manhattan Please join renowned and affable photographer Alison Harris and yours truly, the diamond-spangled curmudgeon,…
Part Two of this three-part series on Paris, Paris is more than a two-fer it's a Multi-Fer: The Blvd Richard-Lenoir Market plus a…
As Paris, Paris cruises through it's ninth printing, and we enjoy the company on our private walking tours of more and more of its…
California awaits the Big One — the killer earthquake of the century — and Paris awaits its very own Grand Cru flood. No…
Sure, we love Paris in the springtime (who doesn't?). We love Paris in the fall (so do millions of others). We love Paris in the…
Welcome to the new and improved (I hope) davidddownie.com, a wholly new website powered by WordPress and designed by the delightful and talented…
Wine bars in Rome? No, not the trendy, fancy-dancy wine bars that the big glossy corporate magazines promote. Well, only one of the three I…
When people tell me about the bad meals they've had in Rome I sigh and wish they'd sought some expert advice before traveling to the…
Rome has great food year round, as anyone who has been there knows (or ought to know). The Christmas-New Years-Epiphany period is particularly great for…