Coffee to Melbourne standards can be hard to find in Paris, but Coutume Café is part owned by an Aussie, and has taken the standard of coffee in Paris up to a new level. Well-located in […]
I have been travelling to Paris regularly since 1999, except for the last 5 year love affair with South America (which is far from over). In 1999, English language music, whilst not unheard, was not […]
Today I’m travelling from London to Paris by Eurostar in an effort to miss the Good Friday holiday traffic due tomorrow. A very straightforward 2.5 hours later, the first of the changes in the five […]
Continuing the photography and royalty theme in London, today it is off to the Queen’s Gallery, to see “The Heart of the Great Alone”, the Antarctic photography expedition featuring photographs of Scott and Shackleton by […]
I had been watching season 4 of The Tudors in January, which made me want to learn more about Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s repudiated 4th Queen. Despite being reputed to have a face a […]
The flight from Cape Town to London Heathrow breezes by, and seems much shorter than 11 hours. Even on British Airways. Even better, arriving at the hotel St Ermin’s in St James’s Park at 8:30 […]
