My favourite Sister has completed her first year of university and of course everyone rejoices. To celebrate after finishing her final exam we spend a weekend in Normandy, accompanied by…
Populated by a (French Speaking) Horse’s Head
We drive over the outer edges of the French Pyrenees, fields of warm sunflowers and ripening grapes on both sides, occasionally passing a thin church tower sticking out above a…
Pushing Beetles through the Wall
This will be an exercise in memory. In the first years of my childhood, my parents often took my sister and I travelling around the Provence, mostly choosing sleepy towns…
Grote Namen van Parijs; en Laon?
10 – Laon & Parijs Dag 1 Laon is een klein gehucht aan de horizon, zo’n honderd meter boven de vlakte van Picardië. Vogels zien het stadje en haar L-vorm,…