Across the tracks and into that mysterious place that we call “Les Marais” – preferable to the rather […]
Category Archive: Heritage
This year that I am French Is nationality a pièce of paper or a state of mind ?– as […]
It’s one of those airless, hot summer Sundays. The world is on holiday, deepest France is in full […]
It was the standard government bad news envelope – « Republique Française » stamped high up in the left hand […]
In my pursuit of chartering those unchartered parts of France. Those towns and villages where the dead seem […]
It is the time of year when professional organisations and lobbies get together in interminable, self-congratulatory ceremonies and […]
The French call it « Gouter », which for want of a better translation would be « teatime » in English, however, […]
1000 Euros for a bottle of wine! You must be mad. I could get 50 bottle of really […]
He’s a national icon, as French as a Camembert cheese or the Eiffel Tower itself; Johnny Halliday is France, […]
Bored of the Brexit? YES – wall-to-wall news coverage of nothing else for the last week., and of […]
Chez Nick 