Antipodes

Click the above image to obtain an enlarged version of the map in question, drawn exactly five centuries ago by a German monk named Martin W...

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

That's the amount I've just had to shell out, in Sydney, to obtain an apostille from the Australian authorities for my birth certif...

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...

Ever since my Italian friend Ezio demonstrated his skills in this domain, in his tavern in the nearby village of Presles [ website ] , I...

" It's normal that the weak resort to terrorism. " Apparently, that sentiment was expressed last Friday by Mouammar Kadhafi a...

I'm delighted to discover that my article on the maternal genealogy of Lewis Carroll [1832-1898], author of Alice in Wonderland , incor...

The new president is ubiquitous. That's a highfalutin way of saying that he's everywhere, simultaneously, 24 hours a day, prepared t...

Referring to current discussions in Bali on the conception of a post-Kyoto agreement on greenhouse emissions, Australia's new prime mini...

I believe it would be good for god-fearing humanity [including Mormons, above all], good for half the US population and good for fun-loving ...

What is there in common between an Australian railway-worker turned politician named Joseph Cahill [1891-1959] and a French banker turned p...

For drivers, primarily, of course. But country roads in France are used too by tons of cyclists, both with and without motors. I've even...

Once upon a time, US presidents could be wise men. I'm delighted by this conversation between Abraham Lincoln and a colleague: Abraham ...

I've always imagined that a lot of publicity is deliberately subliminal, in the sense that the reactions of viewers depend upon percepti...

All seven pictures have disappeared mysteriously from my last article, entitled Sunny weekend with Manya . I've reported this problem to...

This weekend, my daughter brought the sunshine and blue skies to the Vercors, which is rare at this time of the year. Yesterday, we went out...

I've always realized that I'm not a normal healthy person, because reenactments of historical happenings bore me to tears. The worst...

Readers who haven't had the privilege of being jolted around in the London underground train system will need to know that the gap in qu...

A few months ago, in my articles entitled Land of law? [ display ] and Indian doctor and Aussie patient [ display ] , I evoked the case o...