Apparently Val-de-Grace will be open for visitors today. It is a long held ambition to see the interior of this church, build by Anne of Austria to celebrate the birth of Louis XIV. I have […]
Saturday was the 2013 La Chasse aux Tresors de Paris (Paris Treasure Hunt). In it’s seventh year, it is jointly organised by the Mairies (City Halls) of the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, […]
Friday morning is overcast and misty in Paris. An early morning stroll round the Tuileries finds the line outside the Louvre quite long at 9:05am. Not that I’m planning to join the queue. I want […]
Paris traffic is at its absolute worst this morning – 90 minutes from CDG airport to the 2nd arrondisement, and a 65 Euro taxi fare. I hate taking taxis, but my suitcase is too heavy […]
Surprisingly, even Hong Kong airport seems to sleep. The downside of arriving at 5am is that the free shuttle bus to the Novotel City Gate hotel doesn’t start until 6am. Hmmm. I chose this hotel […]
Today’s ‘tourist activity’ is to go whale watching off the Sydney Harbour heads. It has a dual purpose – one, to keep me busy until my late night flight to Hong Kong, and two, to […]
