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The Walls of the Rive Gauche 1 Apr 2012 | 02:43 am
My walk down to the shops on rue de Buci is particularly rich in street art and graffiti. The latest images of Serge Gainsbourg on his house on rue de Verneuil are particularly striking. The nostalgi...
Caterpillars and Carbon Monoxide 1 Apr 2012 | 02:05 am
Against a background of the terrible and sad news from Toulouse, the March sunshine has brought with it a choking smog that has covered Paris for more than a week. Some rain or wind would be welcome...
Ugly, Nevada 27 Feb 2012 | 07:00 am
I was fortunate to be sent to Las Vegas on a business trip. Fortunate, because I didn’t have to pay for the trip, or anything associated with it. Most places I travel to, I manage to find something ...
Cold Wave 6 Feb 2012 | 01:44 am
It’s Sunday morning in Paris, and it’s finally snowed, for the first time this winter. The arrival of a thin layer of white follows a week of bitterly cold weather, that has gripped the whole of Fran...
A Weekend in Venice 23 Jan 2012 | 04:49 am
This year’s winter escape was to Venice… where the cold was even more intense than Paris, but the sun shone all weekend, drowning the city in strong, diffuse light. It was my first visit to city. One...
3 Weeks in New Zealand 10 Jan 2012 | 09:20 am
On Saturday an Air France 777 dropped me back into the greyness of a Paris January, after three weeks back in my island home. Despite a very wet December, the consensus was that pohutukawa flowers th...
Kicking Around 9 Dec 2011 | 11:27 pm
It’s been a long time between posts… work and travel have kept me a long way from the blog. There’s not much point in trying to catch up, but here’s a very brief summary of what’s been happening sinc...
Brittany Folk 7 Oct 2011 | 08:35 pm
It’s been a long time between posts… in the middle of the melée, here are some souvenirs of a weekend spent at Erquy in Brittany, at the end of August: folk festivities with traditional costumes, and ...
Grazing in Switzerland 24 Aug 2011 | 08:47 am
Summer holidays this year were spent in the Swiss Jura, just across the border from France. We drove from Paris to Switzerland through some hidden corners of eastern France – like Bar-sur-Aube, We c...
Of Châteaux and Chavignol 6 Jul 2011 | 06:07 am
We managed to escape Paris for a weekend in the Sancerrois – a miniature region of France between Bourges and the Loire valley. The place is famous for its white wines (sauvignon blanc for the most pa...
