Antipodes

Ever since his sketch on France, I've admired greatly the US stand-up comedian Bill Maher . It's reassuring that an American could b...

People imagine that the great island continent of Australia is far away from everywhere. In fact, as the following map indicates, the northe...

Sophia 's religious convictions surely pass through her belly. At this time of the year, she's certain that God exists, and that He ...

Once again, on SNL [ Saturday Night Live ], lovely Tina Fey did a great job impersonating Sarah Palin , while Amy Poehler played the news...

Maybe certain friends who read my Antipodes blog are interested in Grafton, which was my birthplace. In my monograph on my maternal genealo...

There has been a bit of contestation, in recent times, about the question of whether or not John Dickenson 's wing, demonstrated at the ...

While I've been blogging on about interesting subjects such as France's Icarus Cup festival and John Dickenson 's role in the h...

The ad says: A frank discussion at last on a subject that has long been taboo. The elegant fellow is asking his sophisticated but timid lad...

French stand-up comedians are intrigued by this familiar surname. "Not only did he win the Tour de France seven times. He set foot on t...

It's not always easy to maintain that an individual named X invented, in the year Y , a phenomenon to be known as Z . In this respect, ...

The Coupe d'Icare [ Icarus Cup ] is an annual air show that takes place about 20 km to the north of Grenoble, in the village of Saint H...

I've played the following video several times, in an attempt to grasp its profound meaning: It certainly doesn't make me want to thr...

The three bottles in this photo have the same capacity, 50 centiliters, which is two-thirds that of an ordinary wine bottle. As you can see,...

My friend Corina , who has an excellent French-language blog named Jour après jour [ Day after day ], is interested in devices such as wa...

A short video portrait of John Dickenson , who invented the concept of hang gliding in Grafton in 1963, is being aired every evening on regi...

My bedside table in steel and walnut is finished... except for the final treatment of the wood. It cost me exactly a hundred euros. And I pu...

I've repeated the title of a short article I wrote nearly a year and a half ago [ display ] . I admire this woman. I persist in believin...

My title is wrong. What I want to talk about is not exactly home- made , but rather home- designed , furniture. For example, I love reading ...

This morning, in a villa on the slopes of the Chartreuse mountain range above Grenoble, I finally met up with a celebrated fellow-Australian...

Not having seen Pif for several days, I was happy to glimpse his tiny black silhouette this morning. He stood strangely still at a corner o...