Antipodes

This is a photo of Natacha and me standing on a legendary bridge over the Cholet in the nearby village of St-Laurent-en-Royans: This massiv...

I'm trying to get a feeling for the newly-acquired visual aspect of the north-west corner of my house, so that I'll know how to best...

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...

I encourage readers of my Antipodes blog to browse through what I've published concerning my Alpine hero, the hermit Bruno . His story ...

French researchers in genealogy or local history inevitably run into a quaint but annoying thing (little known outside France) called the Re...

This typescript has been sleeping in a drawer at Gamone for two years. It needs to be rewritten, but I haven't found time to tackle the ...

In my article of 23 July 2007 entitled Wandering in a spiritual wonderland [ display ] , I indicated that Natacha, Alain and I had visited ...

My article of 23 July 2007 entitled Wandering in a spiritual wonderland [ display ] includes a photo of an iron nugget that Alain discover...

The ancient inhabitants called it Cartusia . I've always been fond of that Latin name. Bruno and his six companions entered this spiri...