the weblog of robin camille davis

My parents arrived in Paris last Saturday and left early this morning. In the intervening week, we did a lot. Museums: le Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée Rodin, Petit Palais (William Blake exhibit!). Food: plein-air market in Bastille, gourmet food shopping at La Grande Épicerie, and more restaurants than I’ve eaten at in the past six [...]

Welcome to Munich, Germany! Deven and I visited lovely Germany last week from June 11–14. But I’ve had spotty internet and a million and one adventures since that time, hence the late update. Anyway, so Germany was home to the Olympics in the 70s. The grounds are still open for wandering and sausage-n-beer picnics. This [...]

On Thursday, Deven and I, the inseparable adventurers adventuring in Europe, descended down a long, narrow spiral staircase and into l’empire de la mort (the Empire of Death). Here, the bones of over a million people are stacked carefully, even artfully. Skulls, fibias, clavicles form layers like a grisly wedding cake.

From Madrid, Deven and I flew to Lisbon, Portugal, where we spent 3 days. Old Lisbon (or Lisboa) is absolutely beautiful. The colorful tiled buildings, the black & white pavement, the weather, the water — we knew nothing about the city before we went, but the good things we’d heard about it turned out to [...]

After our classes had (mostly) ended this month, Deven and I embarked on an adventure in Western Europe. This is the first installation of a planned trilogy detailing said adventure!
We spent 3 days in Madrid, Spain. It was a lovely city, literally in the very center of the country, and surprisingly newer than I thought [...]

I’m back in Paris for one (surprisingly productive) day before going on to Munich tomorrow with Deven. For the past week, we’ve been in Madrid & Lisbon! A full picture-laden post will follow but some Portuguese tile will have to suffice in the meantime.
Since coming here, as some of you have no doubt surmised, I’ve [...]

If you are not one of my parents, please disregard this blog post!
However, if you are, neither of your Roadrunner email addresses are working. I keep getting “invalid mailbox” auto-responses. Bug in the system? Grr! The internet has turned against us these past two weeks. I just wanted to ask if you could set up [...]

Taken a few hours before sunset, as the clouds prepared to become prismatic. Sunsets in Neuilly-sur-Seine have been wonderful lately. The view from my apartment is pretty expansive, so I get to see almost the whole sky! What’s more, the sun doesn’t go down until 10pm. How luxurious it all is.
Tomorrow, Deven & I depart [...]

The great Dan Deacon performed at a free concert at Parc de la Villette in the 20° arrondissement yesterday. It’s a huge park surrounding a science museum. Funnily enough, Crow saw Dan Deacon in Providence only a few weeks ago! Anyway, it was, in a word, awesome. The stage was set up in front of [...]