Today seems to be a good day to visit the Royal Palace, Oslo. Getting a ticket to the English-speaking tour is a bit of a shambles. Only ‘left-over’ tickets are sold at the Palace gates, and […]
It’s been 10 years since I was last in Oslo. My last visit was in winter, for a two week stint on the Hurtigruten ship Nordkapp, traveling from Bergen to Kirkenes and back again. I […]
It’s time to pack up my Paris apartment, which I’ve happily settled into, even with it’s quirky decor and bid au revoir to Paris. The bedside lamps are truly bizarre – Greco Roman statues of […]
There’s always something to discover in Paris. Is this a scene from an Egyptian antiquities exhibit? No, it’s a window display in a Christian Loubutin boutique! Nearby, the forecourt of the Paris City Hall has […]
The case of the abseiling plumber. Plumbers are clearly a different breed in Paris. The apartment manager had emailed me to expect the plumber at 8am this morning to check the water leak in the […]
It must be 10 years or more since I have been to Chateau de Chantilly. I think the last time was either autumn or spring, as I remember it being misty and distinctly muddy underfoot […]
