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Park Story

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In the jardin des Tuilleries. Moment captured at the Jardin des Tuilleries 11/25/2018

November 30, 2018 Art, Autumn, France, Paris, photography, sunday, TRAVEL

War Words – Do The Dead Know The War Is Over?

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« Today we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War » – the words […]

November 11, 2018 Café, Death, deepest france, France, French Village, Heritage, History, Military, Music, photography, Poetry, writing

On The Rails

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(Unfinished Journey home) Rolling home through the night from a southern city Rolling past early rising liquid gold […]

October 25, 2018 drifting, Edgelands, France, Home, photography, Poetry, Railways, Uncategorized

Floating Around With the Garlic Whale

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    Some unpublished Holiday memories   Summer time and the living is easy, unless you are looking […]

July 30, 2018 Culture, Family, France, Fun, Holidays, Life, photography, seaside, Stress, Tourism, TRAVEL, Travel writing, Uncategorized, writing

Tourists

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Tourists – we are, we have been and we will be. The whole world is on holiday, and […]

July 29, 2018 Boats, canals, drifting, Europe, France, Holidays, London, Paris, photography, Sailing, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL

Bastille Day Drive

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A Bastille Day drive through the local countryside, ostensibly to track down the red white and blue for […]

July 15, 2018 Café, countryside, Culture, deepest france, drifting, driving, Farming, football, France, French, French Village, Holidays, Motoring, photography, Provincial France, Revolution, Road trip, Rural Life, summer, TV, Weekend

This Sport That Binds Us

France gripped by Soccer World Cup fever. This nation, never noted for colourful patriotic out-pourings, has unfurled the […]

June 17, 2018 Café, deepest france, France, French, Sport

Modern Mix

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Wednesday 23rd May – my official citizenship ceremony – a republican rite of passage where the local “prefet” […]

May 27, 2018 Bourges, deepest france, France, photography, Uncategorized

ROAD FOOD

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On the road for work last week, heading to those parts of France that tourists never go. I […]

May 20, 2018 Art, Café, cheap hotels, Cooking, drifting, Europe, Food, France, gastronomy, junk, Lentils, Motoring, photography, Road trip, Tourism, Uncategorized

Millenials, Black Blocs and Baby Boomers. Where is the spirit of 1968? (and who cares?)

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There was a momentary whiff of « revolution » in the spring air – demonstration, dissent and even destruction. Was […]

May 10, 2018 1968, Ageing, Crime, Culture, France, History, Paris, politics, Revolution, Spring, Time Travel, Uncategorized

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