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Europe, France

What Parisian Landmarks Are Today

1. The Arc de Triomphe A short man bent over in front of me as I was sitting on a bench slathering goat cheese on a piece of brown bread for lunch. The Arc de Triomphe stood brightly in the sun behind him, and I had been enjoying the view, which he interrupted by standing up and showing me a thick golden ring he’d picked … Continue reading What Parisian Landmarks Are Today

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Europe, France

Notes From a Paris Cafe

WATCHING PARISIAN WAITERS is watching an angry, anxious modern dance where things break and crash and no one ends up happy. Two young men will determinedly stare ahead and chug towards each other quickly, like rushing into a mirror, and at the last possible moment stomp down hard on the black-and-white tile floors and leap to one side as if staging a choreographed fight for … Continue reading Notes From a Paris Cafe

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"A Long Way Back" refers to a round-the-world trip I took from Korea to Canada back in 2013, which I turned into a book in 2016. The trip is over, but the name stuck.

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