Antipodes

J'ai trouvé cette pierre à Châtelus, sur la colline en face de Gamone. Pendant quelques jours, j'avais même imaginé naïvement ...

Mettez-vous dans la position d’un touriste qui souhaiterait utiliser Google pour savoir s’il existe un camping dans la commune de Châtelus ...

Click here to discover a letter from Richard Dawkins . Having fallen down the stairs at Gamone last year, I can better understand th...

My old friend Daniel Berger (an experienced wild-boar hunter) and his wife Michèle operate a delightful camping site across the other side...

The great Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , a distinguished aviator [ display ], wrote a marvelous tale in which the Little Prince asked a space-d...

Yesterday afternoon, I was surprised to look up at the Cournouze and discover that she was bedecked with a delicate bridal headdress trimme...

At this time of the year, I don't usually drive across in the vicinity of Châtelus, on the other side of the Bourne. But I went across t...

Yesterday morning, at around 11 o'clock, I was surprised to hear the chimes of the Angelus ringing out across the Bourne Valley from the...

This is a recent specimen of a red Cournouze photo (untouched by Photoshop in any way whatsoever), taken from my bathroom window: [Clic...

This morning, the valley of the Bourne was shrouded in floating mists, while the sunny sky was pale blue and studded with cumulus clouds. On...

If I haven't blogged much over the last week, it's because I was busy tidying up the house for the arrival of Manya and Hakeem . I ...

In a landscape context, I like to apply the term "singularity" to any kind of more-or-less unique phenomenon that is either except...

When you're talking about shirts and sweaters, the French noun col means collar. For a French bartender drawing beer from a tap, the co...

On the slopes of the Cournouze (see the above image in the Antipodes header), on the other side of the Bourne, there's a tiny white blo...

Between my property and the Bourne, there's a rugged slope where I hardly ever venture, because the bushes and weeds are so thick that y...

Imagine a fellow who has been living alongside his lady for ages, admiring longingly and lustfully her physical beauty, and exploring intima...

During the years from 1882 until 1885, the painter Paul Cézanne [1839-1906] produced some 80 images of the giant Sainte-Victoire mountain ...

My recent article entitled Rock is ready to fall [ display ] described the giant rock at Choranche overhanging the road from Pont-en-Royan...

We've just been informed that the dynamiting of the huge rock overhanging the road at Choranche has been pushed back 24 hours, because l...

From Châtelus , on the other side of the Bourne, there's a magnificent view of the limestone cliffs above the village of Choranche. My f...