TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

3:29 PM
Posted by jodi rose

finally coming to understand paris a little, the day I leave.
had wild adventure afternoon yesterday running around with ben and yasmin, met producer of french tv program at holiday inn republique to discuss ideas - now have to write synopsis; first thing tomorrow in berlin - then off to radio france for interview with M. Christian Zanesi. wonderful building; completely circular, and M Zanesi extremely charming and philosophical - ben did an amazing job of simultaneous translation; speaking french english and concrete!
then listened to the pont des arts; as it's yasmin's favourite bridge, had a lovely burbling sound reminded me of brooklyn bridge. ben says this is like submarine specialists, who spend all day listening and can tell the different subs apart, russian; french; usa; new torpedoes or propellor system. side trip to the bridge where last tango in paris was filmed... not much to hear sadly. but the pont diena and desalma both lovely, diena in front of the eiffel tower is a true radio bridge; pîcking up radio signal through the metal. crazy.
wandered up to cite des arts and visited shu lea; tales of the true digital nomad, she was my model for this lifestyle many years ago, on that garlic farm; and is a veteran.
this morning woke to a lively market on my doorstep, wandered about buying olives and tapenade and giving them away, first to ben who met for coffee; then helen and heiko, when finally visited their fab new gallery space in simplon. altho have to catch a plane very soon; so no time to help with renovation.