Monthly Archives: February 2017

Galaries Layfayette Think gold and you’ll get what it looks like in this fabulous department store located in the Opera district of Paris. With 10 floors glittering with golden lighting, it’s a stu… Source: Famous Five Department Stores For the Compulsive Shopper

It’s September 2021 and its been a long lonely road, as they say. Covid-19 has sent our world reeling. For me, the last 18th months has provided an opportunity to return, for a while, to my profession as a lecturer working online at a local university. Two vaccines later and a lot of time sittingContinue reading “It’s Time To Get Back On The Road Again”

When I was a child, I could see our local bus terminus from my bedroom window, that’s if I craned my neck. At night, when the buses were all lit up I made up stories about the passengers sitt… Source: The Promenade Plantee: Paris

Located in the heart of Central France, sits the pretty town of Aubigny sur Nere and I’m lucky enough to have a conversion de grange just a few kilometres away. This fascinating town was comp… Source: Aubigny sur Nere is a wee bit of Scotland

The world produces a billion tons of salt each year, irrespective of claims that salt is bad for our health. Salt however is essential in our diet, without it our brains wouldn’t work and our muscl… Source: Seeing is believing: 5 awesome salt mines