richard
@testastretta.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Paris 16è 🇫🇷
When a dog barks and wags its tail : which end do you believe ?
Relocated Yank. No interest to return.
When a dog barks and wags its tail : which end do you believe ?
Relocated Yank. No interest to return.
Fifteen years ago, "the brown dog" was fetched up to avoid being returned for adoption. So many years of love, shenanigans, and the bestest boi ever.
Miss you, even if you were annoying at times. Epic counter surfer.
Miss you, even if you were annoying at times. Epic counter surfer.
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Fifteen years ago, "the brown dog" was fetched up to avoid being returned for adoption. So many years of love, shenanigans, and the bestest boi ever.
Miss you, even if you were annoying at times. Epic counter surfer.
Miss you, even if you were annoying at times. Epic counter surfer.
Chilling after a lovely evening with @lorifontanes.bsky.social
Taxi home soonish. Enjoying a glass of Bordeaux in the middle of the Seine is so décontracté. #Paris
Taxi home soonish. Enjoying a glass of Bordeaux in the middle of the Seine is so décontracté. #Paris
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Chilling after a lovely evening with @lorifontanes.bsky.social
Taxi home soonish. Enjoying a glass of Bordeaux in the middle of the Seine is so décontracté. #Paris
Taxi home soonish. Enjoying a glass of Bordeaux in the middle of the Seine is so décontracté. #Paris
Making up time, due to arrive CDG on schedule.
After a sumptuous lunch of primarily northern Chinese food i.e. hot, I eschewed the in flight meal and am subsisting on 2020 Médoc.
No baseball tonight. Just chillin’ like a villain after a a hot shower following a hot lunch.
After a sumptuous lunch of primarily northern Chinese food i.e. hot, I eschewed the in flight meal and am subsisting on 2020 Médoc.
No baseball tonight. Just chillin’ like a villain after a a hot shower following a hot lunch.
October 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Making up time, due to arrive CDG on schedule.
After a sumptuous lunch of primarily northern Chinese food i.e. hot, I eschewed the in flight meal and am subsisting on 2020 Médoc.
No baseball tonight. Just chillin’ like a villain after a a hot shower following a hot lunch.
After a sumptuous lunch of primarily northern Chinese food i.e. hot, I eschewed the in flight meal and am subsisting on 2020 Médoc.
No baseball tonight. Just chillin’ like a villain after a a hot shower following a hot lunch.
Not the most luxurious airport, but it’s taking me home just the same.
Lovely, chill weekend with dear friends from Oz who settled here. Being two hours away is a luxury.
Lovely, chill weekend with dear friends from Oz who settled here. Being two hours away is a luxury.
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Not the most luxurious airport, but it’s taking me home just the same.
Lovely, chill weekend with dear friends from Oz who settled here. Being two hours away is a luxury.
Lovely, chill weekend with dear friends from Oz who settled here. Being two hours away is a luxury.
El gato. Terrorized over ten years ago by the Labs when our friends needed temporary lodging after relocating to SF from south of the equator in the land of Chunder. Living a purring existence with a littermate near the ocean south of Lisbon.
October 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
El gato. Terrorized over ten years ago by the Labs when our friends needed temporary lodging after relocating to SF from south of the equator in the land of Chunder. Living a purring existence with a littermate near the ocean south of Lisbon.
When it’s chilly, eat warm food.
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
When it’s chilly, eat warm food.
The luxury of living in the EU.
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The luxury of living in the EU.
I indulged in Tibetan dumplings tonight at a place tucked in the 10è (merci encore @namakosan415.bsky.social).
The R/T taxi is about twice the expense of the meal. Going by métro takes almost an hour from where I live. Great meal just the same. #Paris
And now, time for TOR @ SEA #MLB
The R/T taxi is about twice the expense of the meal. Going by métro takes almost an hour from where I live. Great meal just the same. #Paris
And now, time for TOR @ SEA #MLB
October 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I indulged in Tibetan dumplings tonight at a place tucked in the 10è (merci encore @namakosan415.bsky.social).
The R/T taxi is about twice the expense of the meal. Going by métro takes almost an hour from where I live. Great meal just the same. #Paris
And now, time for TOR @ SEA #MLB
The R/T taxi is about twice the expense of the meal. Going by métro takes almost an hour from where I live. Great meal just the same. #Paris
And now, time for TOR @ SEA #MLB
Browsing saved images. This one turned up.
I believe we'd had him for 2-3 weeks. He was such a clever clown. My heart aches, 15 years after this photo was captured.
I believe we'd had him for 2-3 weeks. He was such a clever clown. My heart aches, 15 years after this photo was captured.
October 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Browsing saved images. This one turned up.
I believe we'd had him for 2-3 weeks. He was such a clever clown. My heart aches, 15 years after this photo was captured.
I believe we'd had him for 2-3 weeks. He was such a clever clown. My heart aches, 15 years after this photo was captured.
Crossing Lake Geneva headed from Milano to Paris. The runway to Genève airport is visible in the upper right.
Just lovely.
Just lovely.
October 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Crossing Lake Geneva headed from Milano to Paris. The runway to Genève airport is visible in the upper right.
Just lovely.
Just lovely.
Osteria Alla Grande, Milano. Superbe.
October 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Osteria Alla Grande, Milano. Superbe.
Followed by dinner : excellent ravioli with spinach and ricotta.
And of course, a 2021 Chianti. Bellissimo.
And of course, a 2021 Chianti. Bellissimo.
September 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Followed by dinner : excellent ravioli with spinach and ricotta.
And of course, a 2021 Chianti. Bellissimo.
And of course, a 2021 Chianti. Bellissimo.
Arrivé Milano. Order Negroni at hotel. All is well.
September 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Arrivé Milano. Order Negroni at hotel. All is well.
Lounge lizard @ CDG/LFPG.
September 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Lounge lizard @ CDG/LFPG.
RATP has had a tradition of posting creative writing on the métro.
For the first time, I wept reading one. From a 16 year old who lives in my arrondissement.
Glad to call this home #Paris
« To the demented minds
To the dried-up oceans
Smile with all your teeth
As life grimaces you »
For the first time, I wept reading one. From a 16 year old who lives in my arrondissement.
Glad to call this home #Paris
« To the demented minds
To the dried-up oceans
Smile with all your teeth
As life grimaces you »
September 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
RATP has had a tradition of posting creative writing on the métro.
For the first time, I wept reading one. From a 16 year old who lives in my arrondissement.
Glad to call this home #Paris
« To the demented minds
To the dried-up oceans
Smile with all your teeth
As life grimaces you »
For the first time, I wept reading one. From a 16 year old who lives in my arrondissement.
Glad to call this home #Paris
« To the demented minds
To the dried-up oceans
Smile with all your teeth
As life grimaces you »
September 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Post someone who looks good wet.
September 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Post someone who looks good wet.
Thank goodness the taxis aren’t on strike today : had routine visit with GP this afternoon. Back at my local enjoying a rare cheeseburger and Jameson on the rocks. À mon santé ! #Paris
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thank goodness the taxis aren’t on strike today : had routine visit with GP this afternoon. Back at my local enjoying a rare cheeseburger and Jameson on the rocks. À mon santé ! #Paris
National grog on the rocks.
Life’s OK at the moment.
Life’s OK at the moment.
September 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
National grog on the rocks.
Life’s OK at the moment.
Life’s OK at the moment.
Evidently I appear to be in Edinburgh.
September 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Evidently I appear to be in Edinburgh.
Time to visit MSP.
September 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Time to visit MSP.
Camembert glistening in the morning sun of Terminal 2E, K concourse AF lounge. Early morning travel to EDI for shenanigans with @troisgalopins.bsky.social and her spawn who is kicking off his further education at the University of Edinburgh.
Pray to St-Foie, guardian of the liver.
Pray to St-Foie, guardian of the liver.
September 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Camembert glistening in the morning sun of Terminal 2E, K concourse AF lounge. Early morning travel to EDI for shenanigans with @troisgalopins.bsky.social and her spawn who is kicking off his further education at the University of Edinburgh.
Pray to St-Foie, guardian of the liver.
Pray to St-Foie, guardian of the liver.
Dinner tonight at the bistro literally across the street.
Had a lovely Calabrian salami pizza and a pichet of Chinon. Two girls joined half-meal : Chonky Chocolate and her packmate (a sea of fur, per their guardians).
The guardians agreed that dogs in restaurants are > toddlers.
Vive la 🇨🇵
Had a lovely Calabrian salami pizza and a pichet of Chinon. Two girls joined half-meal : Chonky Chocolate and her packmate (a sea of fur, per their guardians).
The guardians agreed that dogs in restaurants are > toddlers.
Vive la 🇨🇵
September 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Dinner tonight at the bistro literally across the street.
Had a lovely Calabrian salami pizza and a pichet of Chinon. Two girls joined half-meal : Chonky Chocolate and her packmate (a sea of fur, per their guardians).
The guardians agreed that dogs in restaurants are > toddlers.
Vive la 🇨🇵
Had a lovely Calabrian salami pizza and a pichet of Chinon. Two girls joined half-meal : Chonky Chocolate and her packmate (a sea of fur, per their guardians).
The guardians agreed that dogs in restaurants are > toddlers.
Vive la 🇨🇵
AF81, 6A. Bien installé.
August 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
AF81, 6A. Bien installé.