A few weekends ago, my friend Boris Hennion (also an ex.e.r.ce) took me to his friend Jean’s new restaurant in Saint Hippolyte du Fort, an old silk mill town in the mountains north of Montpellier. Jean is working to establish a progressive boarding school. In addition to his tireless work to set up the school [...]
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Chez Jean
Posted in Je Suis Touriste, Uncategorized, tagged Boris Hennion, Saint Hippolyte du Fort, Villa Figaret on 28 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tour of Nîmes
Posted in Je Suis Touriste, tagged Nîmes, pigeons, Roman architecture, South of France, Virginia Campbell on 13 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Crocodile chained to a palm tree = Nîmes, which is where the Roman legions that fought for Julius Caesar in the Nile settled after they served for 15 years. It is also where I went for the day on the recommendation of a friend who had studied in Montpellier some years ago. I planned the [...]
Rhys Chatham (sort of) and Old Town
Posted in Art in the New World, Je Suis Touriste, tagged charm, Festival Sonorités, Montpellier, Montpellier centre ville, Rhys Chatham, Université Paul Valery on 10 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On my second night in Montpellier I was delighted to find that the experimental guitarist Rhys Chatham would be performing at a local university for the Festival Sonorités, along with many other performers, lecturers, etc. I first encountered Chatham as the vaguely sexy but mostly blurry figure with guitar in hand in an old video [...]
