Lunch at Serviers
Monday, twelve thirty, Serviers (population about 200), Southern France. We were at the only restaurant in the village – the only commercial centre in the village too, there are no shops. We were met...
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Paris. Paris!
If you come to Paris for a few days or a week, conscientiously or gladly doing the rounds from one museum to another, interspersing a cruise along the Seine perhaps, a ride up the Eiffel Tower and a...
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Down and Out. . . and About
Like the locals, we lounge a lot in the parks. The chairs scattered around ask to be lingered on, they are olive or mustard coloured, and either upright or slightly tilted back. We eat ice-creams in...
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I think I’ll go shopping
I’m quite a frugal person. I re-use tea bags. And, after washing them, plastic bags and glad wrap. And apart from some underwear and my wedding dress, I haven’t bought any clothes since 1992. But with...
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Summer imprints
Along a bend in the Seine stand some unusual buildings, which if you look closely you will see are in the shape of tall, open books. This is the enormous Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National...
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La grande bouffe
Paris – the gastronomic capital of the world. City of fabulous and fabulously expensive restaurants, we sampled one and I will describe the experience. But you don’t need to spend a fortune to eat...
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We found ourselves in a queue of hopefuls on the pavement of a nondescript quartier of Paris, part of a line snaking untidily around the outside corner of a dilapidated 1980s era building labelled...
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