Paris mourning
New year really started in the bathroom of a 3 star hotel 45 minutes walk from Notre Dame. Not midnight amongst the Europeans singing, hugging, kissing and drinking. A houseparty of strangers. A...
View Articlecity of love
Early evening In Paris, in the company of a recently married couple, leaving our hotel in search of the Tour Eiffel. Will we walk? Will we ride bus 63 then 24? Will we take the metro? Do we want to get...
View Articlewalking amongst the homeless
The homeless slept on the streets by the monuments. Belongings stocked in supermarket trolleys. The open-top sightseeing tourist bus roll by as the rain clouds gather and the homeless sleep in the...
View Articleex terminate!
This is the end of short trains, they will be terminated, only long trains from now on. Those French are both assertive and sizist.
View Articlecrowning glory
David captures a fictionalisation of the moment when the French Emperor Napolean crowns Josephine Empress of France. It’s a BIG picture. This version hangs in a room at the end of the Versailles Hall...
View Articlebarrel of love
A bridge over the river Siene is decorated with messages of love. Padlocks. On the barrel of each padlock is a message of love, some in black pen, some in red varnish. Beautiful art emerging in one...
View Articlesafety
On the way to an evening of BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, walking along Kensington High Street, we passed two Police people carring large guns. Walking through the Louvre in Paris, we passed...
View Articlemobilising immobilisation
My journey to Paris today was all a bit exciting electronic checkin: we cannot check you in please go to an Air France Desk Air France desk: are you on one of the plane’s that’s been cancelled?...
View Articlecrackling air
The orchestra emerges from door 27 The crash barriers help stop the rather untamed orchestra from rushing out and hurting any unsuspecting passing pedestrians. The orchestra is normally kept...
View Articleinternational humanitarian crisis
I hate French men, they’re all animals Spoken by anyone other than Jane this might not have seemed so suprising. Jane adored France. Studying business studies in French, recently returned from a year’s...
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