Paris may be known for the soft rose light of its afternoons, but at night its monuments are set aflame by a warm glow that is far closer to candlelight than the bright white spotlights that ruin so many cities.
Cape Cod is like a fantasised view of New England, a peninsula covered in trees aflame with colour in the weeks leading up to Halloween, shading perfect lawns and whitewashed fences.
Which didn't prevent members of the press and pundits from proclaiming, all the rest of the week, that Mr. Romney had embarked on a political attack while the world was aflame and the president embroiled in the crisis.