“That wasn’t a revolution,” scoffs my intellectual friend. Well, 6000 protesters in town, violence, vandalism, tear gas thick […]
Category Archive: Bourges
A morning mixing with the Yellow Vests movement as they gather in Bourges for their signature national demonstration. […]
It seems tomorrow that the bulk of the Yellow Vest movement are coming to hold their national demonstration […]
The ancient Gauls thought that Bourges was the centre of the world. Tomorrow (Saturday 12 January) it will […]
I got the idea listening to that Tom Petty song “Freefalling”, living in a house with a freeway […]
It’s the cooling evening of the afternoon of the gig of the morning that started the night before. […]
Wednesday 23rd May – my official citizenship ceremony – a republican rite of passage where the local “prefet” […]
It’s monster day or “Les Monstres”, in my home town of Bourges – that one-a-year-day, when you can […]
Back on the blog and back from a long road trip to those parts of France where tourists […]
Across the tracks and into that mysterious place that we call “Les Marais” – preferable to the rather […]
