Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 5/19/26
We’re back from London and Paris, placing me at about 4,100,000 air miles since 1963 (my first two flights ever, from Helsinki back to New York, my next one being on our honeymoon in 1968). Some observations and interpretations.
The traffic in London and Paris is monstrous. I timed one green light lasting only three seconds in our direction at a major intersection. The traffic is actually worse than New York, and there are virtually no “interstates” as in the US. People commute by train from out of town, and often bikes and scooters within town. The taxis and Ubers (often the same car and driver in Paris) are excellent. (Digression: Every Uber in London that we called was a top-end, electric or hybrid, BMW or Mercedes, and the drivers owned them. I looked up the prices: about $125,000 US.)
The boîtes, brasseries, and restaurants are ubiquitous in Paris where the major meal is often lunch. Absolutely wonderful escargot almost anywhere. The service is remarkably friendly in shops, taxis, and hotels, not so much on public transportation (trains) or other services. The politics in Britain and France are as unsettled as they are in the US (as my friend from Germany confirmed for his country at dinner with us in Paris).
The Parisian garbage trucks unavoidably hold up traffic on narrow streets but light up a sign on the top, rear of the truck in French and English which says, “Patience.” Why do I feel that such a device in the US would say, “So’s your mother!!”?
Notre Dame is beautifully rebuilt and refurbished, though it seems “too clean” and somewhat sterile. I miss the “historical dust” of the place, the residue of past glory. The Rodin Museum, which we visited for the first time, provided me with new appreciation for the man’s huge talent, his diversity of work (doors, furniture, fireplaces), and the profundity of his sculpture. I had not associated him with the beginning of the 20th Century.
No amount or reading, viewing, or listening can equal being in “foreign lands” and imbibing the flavor, understanding the culture through osmosis, and enriching our lives. We’re actually members of the Circumnavigators Club, one of those places I like to determine if I can just get into (you need to have circumnavigated the globe), and that gives us membership in the Yale Club in New York (which has absolutely awful food).
We’re booked already for Slovenia and Italy next year, and Italy, perhaps twice. My wife is Italian back to the Medicis, I’m the first non-Italian to ever enter into it, and the food is outstanding there!
(You’ll note that Monday Morning Memo is back on the correct day!)
Luckily inside, I feel like an 18-year-old, with the spirit inside me as adventurous and young as it ever was. I still have wide-eyed wonder about the amazing things I've seen, in an extraordinary life travelling all over the world for my career. —Robson Green
Life is travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. —D. H. Lawrence
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries. —René Descartes
I've always thought the ideal life was to love going to a vacation spot, and then to love returning home. —Alan Weiss
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