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Food and friends
An old friend was coming over for dinner, so I consulted my copy of Larousse Gastronomique—the veritable bible of cooking, which weighs...


Keeping the cold out
One of the lovely thing about living in Paris is that people don’t just turn to the supermarket to cater for their every need, you can...


Snow had fallen, snow on snow
Today it snowed. Thick downy flakes came down steadily and swirled through the streets, eddying in the wind. I took a walk around the Ile...


No amount of garlic is too much garlic!
This morning to yoga in the village of Bouteille. In the afternoon, Pinky took us kayaking down a small river, only navigable at this...


An unlikely meeting of distance food cultures...
This afternoon we took a walk with the dogs around the lake at La Jamaye. The Images have a lovely dog, called Tilly, a Labrador crossed...


A home away from home...
I quickly made a recipe video of the Hung Shao Pork that I had made on Sunday, which I ate again for lunch, and then got on the train to...


The Palace of the Popes, not the one in Rome...
This morning to the Palace of the Popes, the edifice in the centre of the city which is what had really brought me to Avignon. For nearly...


The Water of the Hills
I left Arles and headed into the hills, to the 11th century castle at Les Baux-de-Provence then to the ruins of the Roman aqueduct that...


Wild horses couldn't drag me away...
This morning to Aix-en-Provence on the TGV and then on to Marseille airport to pick up a rental car. The sun was shining and so I stuck a...


A decaying vision of the future on the outskirts of Paris...
Almost 80% of the population of Paris don’t live in Paris proper, they live in les banlieues or suburbs. The photographer, Laurent...
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