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It All Starts In A Blue Room – Love in a Dead Dance Hall

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This is for all the dead dance halls It starts in an other age, in a dead northern […]

January 5, 2019 Alcohol, France, Hangover, Life, love, nostalgia, photography, Poetry, Road trip, Time Travel

Naked in the Vines

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In a couple of days, we will be sloshing out the old year and toasting in the next. […]

December 29, 2018 Alcohol, countryside, deepest france, driving, Landscapes, New Year, photography, Road trip, Sancerre, TRAVEL, Uncategorized, vines, Wine

Of Rippers and Strippers and Adventurers

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RIPPERS AND STRIPPERS Christmas, that wonderous and magical  time for the giving and, (you hope), the receiving of […]

December 27, 2018 drifting, driving, Gifts, Home, Philosophy, Road trip, TRAVEL, Travel writing, writing

In The Silo Shadow

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It is the hundredth year of war. Even though the war has been over for a hundred years […]

November 11, 2018 photography, Poetry, Road trip, Uncategorized, war, writing

Pointless Places

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I got the idea listening to that Tom Petty song “Freefalling”, living in a house with a freeway […]

July 19, 2018 Bourges, Cemetery, deepest france, drifting, driving, Edgelands, Environment, Landscapes, photography, Road trip, Rock 'n' Roll, rubbish, Small town, summer, TRAVEL, Weather

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

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

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  • CHEZ MOI
    • Bourges – My Accidental Place of Exile
    • Slipping into my small town
    • On The Edge of Nowhere
  • MEET THE LOCALS
    • Earning a Crust in Deepest France
    • Meet Mr Beef the Butcher
    • Going Smokeless In the Heart of France
    • Ah, le P’tit Kawa
    • The Man In the Van
    • A Hunting We Will Go
    • Slaughter In St Just
    • Getting Horny
    • Small Town Sex – Meeting Madame Eva
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    • The Confessions of Father B
    • Weaving Wedding Dreams
    • Now The Music’s Over …
    • On The Fiddle In Bourges
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    • Meeting the Goatman
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    • Thoughts on Travel Writing
    • Holidays – The Usefulness and Purpose Of
    • We’re All Bloody Tourists
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    • Going Nowhere
    • On The Way To a Funeral
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  • FRENCH LESSONS
    • Lesson One – Merde en France
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    • Lesson Three – Sacré Bleu!
    • Lesson Four – C’est con
    • Lesson Five – Je m’en fous
    • Lesson Six – Mustn’t grumble (Bof)
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