Antipodes

Readers who know French will have understood that my title is an awkward attempt to translate our fear that « la France d’autrefois fout le...

The Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel [1929-1978] composed the celebrated song Ne me quitte pas [ Don’t leave me ] in 1959. Clic...

Once or twice a day, as usual, Fitzroy lets off steam by means of a short but intense session of hose running. I tried to “freeze”...

This remarkable color photo of a spot in the Latin Quarter (Paris)—the intersection of the rue de l'Ecole-Polytechnique and the rue de ...

Christine phoned early this morning to inform me that her father, aged 94, had finally slipped away peacefully yesterday evening. In the co...

The British actor Stephen Fry , who loves Apple toys, has come up with an amusing comparison for an iPad. “The way I see it is it’s like a d...

On the second day of our Provençal excursion, Christine and I drove through the Camargue region of the Rhône delta, then visited several si...

Christine arrived at Gamone a week ago. On Wednesday, we set out in the car for a short excursion to Provence, leaving Sophia in the capab...

Christine 's dog Gamone (daughter of my Sophia ) is enraptured by this soft rubber ball… which once belonged to Natacha 's dog Jojo...