To the ends of the earth

I had heard of the novelist George Sand but was never all that enthralled by her so I never read any of her books. However I had the opportu...

   Last night I attended a first night screening of the Michael biopic based on Michael Jackson's life. It was as I expected. First a ...

Recently I needed to undergo a Barium Swallow test for my gastric reflux and hiatal hernia assessment. It's quite interesting as I hadn...

My maternal great, great  French grandfather was a scoundrel who was briefly infamous throughout nineteeth century New Zealand. A book on ...

  The world is in a mess. Europe is being threatened by Putin and Trump. It is hard to see how things can get sorte...

A few months ago I had the opportunity to visit Strasbourg in Eastern France. It is near the German border and has been fought over between ...

The Tuileries Garden in Paris is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site . Most tourists don't realise that in the nineteenth century it...