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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...


Auditioning for the Paris Choral Society
This evening to the American Cathedral in Paris for an audition for the Paris Choral Society. The choir was formed in the 1990s and has...


Walking through a painting...
It was one of those really beautiful days—the clouds hung low and heavy in the sky, obscuring the view of Montmatre from my window, but...


Two classic sauces and two jars of anchovies…
I went back to the exercise bars on the Quai d’Orsay this morning, only to have my plans scuppered once again—this time by the waters of...


A lone wanderer on the lone and level sands stretching far away...
A leisurely start to the day on account of rain showers forecast to clear up after midday. True to the predictions, the rest of the day...


Was it a dream? Moules Marinère... in a medieval castle floating in the sea.
Up earlier than I would have liked to catch the TGV from Montparnasse to Normandy, my destination: Le Mont St Michel. On account of the...


Back to the city of lights, at last
A long bus journey back to bring me back to Paris from London. It passed uneventfully and I watched the film of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The...
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