Posts by Jay C. Kellerman
Righting a Little Wrong
Yesterday, on Remembrance Day, I attended the Mazargues Commonwealth War Cemetery. I was the only one there. At 1100 am, I played The Last Post from my phone. I stopped at the grave of Lt. Greenberg of the SAAF. I had been at his grave before. He died at 28 in a plane crash while…
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But Where Will I Park?
Driving in France is bad enough, but parking is a whole other story. It is impossible. I am anxious enough about driving in this country in the first place (I am generally not an anxious driver) but it is the thought about parking that puts me over the top. At the thought of going out…
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West Of The Humber
Some people think that I live in a bubble. When it comes to Toronto though, it is more of a rectangle. I figure I spend 99% of my life in Toronto, COVID or no COVID within a rectangle with Front Street to the south, Yonge Street to the east, Eglinton to the north (and only…
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Three Canadians
At a bit over 900 metres above the blue and turquoise waters of the famed French Riviera, the Col de la Madone, a narrow twisting mountain pass road, beckons professional and not so professional cyclists alike. It is where now disgraced Lance Armstrong trained and gauged his readiness for the Tour de France. This past…
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MRS – An Introduction
I have been coming to the South of France, and in particular, Marseille, for about 15 years. In truth, Marseille would not have been my first choice of French towns to have a second home in. That said, it has grown on me. France’s second city is not really the city of the opening scene…
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