By David Himmel

• Everyone over here looks like a Bond Girl or a guy who sells you the best drugs.

• Wandering around a foreign beach town drunk is not ideal. Running along its coast at dawn is.

• I expected more cigarettes here. My disappointment is eclipsed by my respiratory health.

• You feeling jet lagged? Have another drink, throw yourself into the salt water, and boom—Bob’s your uncle.

• Every meal tastes better when you can expense it.

• The French aren’t rude, they’re aggressively slow.