Almost Paris. London, actually.

This post should really be dated late October, when I was in London. However, it's actually late November, and I am currently settled for a while at British School in Rome, and finally able to get caught up on this travel blog thing. So I have been thinking back to my week in France , looking through my photos and trying to distill the whole experience down to a few word and images. I have opted for more pictures than words. The reality of this whole blog thing is that when living my normal, non-sabbatical life I barely have time to read blogs, never mind write one. Cian, another resident artist here in Rome, suggested that a good title for a blog would be "I Don't Even Have the Time to Read a Blog, Never Mind Write One". I thought this would indeed be a good name for a blog, but only if the author were to write massively long and complex daily blogs that would require no less than a full day of thoughtful writing.
This blog, lucky for you and me both, will not be so word-y but rather more picture-y.
(It is Cian, btw, who so generously lent me his lovely Macbook Pro, that I am working on right now. Really, why do people bother with PC's? Life is too short to work on a PC if you don't have to!)
Anyway, before I get to Paris, let me go back to London for a bit to tell you about the best pizza ever. It was at a little place at 91 Brick Lane called Story Deli. It feels a bit like Commute on Queen West in Toronto. Sorry, no picture, but here is a link for Londoners and those London-bound. Go and eat organic pizza and drink organic beer.
http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/reviews/6710.html

This bit of pizza was had after seeing some shorts films by Lotte Reiniger at the Tate Modern. If you have not seen her work, check it out. They are ground-breaking paper cut-out animated films. Very beautiful, very lyrical.



...and very much sampled by American artist Kara Walker.