I find myself in a strange and foreign land - Yorkshire!
Getting here: The flight reminded me how rude people can be, as a group of elderly passengers shoved their way past us, ranting about ‘prority boading’ as we helped the children pick themselves back up off the floor. Seemed the old folk had missed the announcement and [...]
I saw an interesting news feature about French cooking - at the opening of the Paris Agriculture Fair, Nicolas Sarkozy called on UNESCO to list French cuisine as ‘World heritage’ and needing protection.
As far as I knew, the UNESCO world heritage list is usually for monuments, places and buildings - to ensure they aren’t ravaged [...]
When I got married, rather a long time ago I have to admit, we spent our honeymoon in Paris. Now wasn’t that romantic. It was probably the only romantic thing I’ve ever done, so I remember it quite clearly.
It was very pleasant, we saw all the sights, ambled hand in hand along the Champs-Elysées in [...]
This entry is a warning of things to come on this blog. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Education is on its way.
Living in south-west France it’s pretty hard to escape from a sense of history. From prehistoric cave painters to nazi occupation, via the Romans, the cathar crusades, the Hundred Years War and the Wars [...]
Well it had to happen eventually, and after six years it is now getting close - we are going back to England in a few weeks time! OK that’s slightly misleading, the visit will only last a week or so, and is because there is a limit to how long you can neglect visiting your [...]
Valentine’s day came along yesterday and, what can I say, I didn’t receive any anonymous cards in the post from secret admirers. Same old story for the last 30 years but I still live in hope.
Mrs B and the girls didn’t receive any either, or none that they chose to admit to, so we all [...]
During January and February the weather can be a bit, well, unappealing, and I get most of my pleasure by staring out of the window, looking miserable, and making life miserable for the rest of the family. Mrs B will tell you I always get my pleasure by being miserable but it’s not quite true…
Anyway, [...]
Many (most?) people start their search for a holiday by using google or one of the other search engines. Because of this website I get a rare insight into what people actually search for - my statistics show me, each day, what several thousand potential travellers have searched for and how they found the site.
So [...]
Cars that run, quite literally, on air have been in design and development for a few years now, but this year it seems as if the impossible might actually happen - the French designer / inventor Guy Negre is hopeful that the cars will actually go on sale before the end of 2008. That is [...]
