Today began with mist on the river, and ended with reflections and fireworks. It was a beautiful day which made the places we saw on our T...

There are 100 words in Norman French for rain, we were told today. You can't always believe such things, but we were inclined to accep...

With thanks to Avalon Waterways  for this cruise I have waterlilies in my pond, and my dining room is yellow, but I went to Giverny anyw...

Looking for something a bit different to do today, after strolling through the pleasant and peaceful Montparnasse Cemetery,  we took the M...

Today belonged to Quân. He was my Greeter , arranged at the last minute on the internet: a local happy to show strangers around his part o...

Having emerged, finally, from the annual dark, deep, soul-sucking morass of preparing my tax return, with its habitual bitter self-recrimi...

I'm always a sucker for my own hype, and having written recently for an airline magazine about the quirky and cultural joys of Welli...