Antipodes

In a recent issue of the weekly Le Point , the main theme was retirement . This is a highly topical subject in France, where many observers ...

When I see how hard it is for people to find jobs these days, often as a consequence of globalization, I generally end up thinking that mayb...

When I'm woken up by the noise of a tractor cutting the weeds alongside the road up to Gamone, I know that summer has well and truly rea...

A US-based organization named OCLC [ Online Computer Library Center ] has been grouping together many of the planet's great libraries w...

When I arrived back home after my trip to Valence yesterday, it was so hot at Gamone that I decided to drive Sophia down to Pont-en-Royans f...

In this photo that I took in Valence yesterday, only the two gendarmes are real. All the others are painted people. On the first-floor balco...

When my ex-wife and I were residing for a while in Brussels in 1966, where our daughter was born, we were able to admire splendid specimens ...

Concerning the 150-year jail sentence for Bernard Madoff , I can understand perfectly well that the entire American system intends to send o...

For years, one of my favorite innocent pastimes (serving no useful purpose) has consisted of comparing characteristic behavior from three na...

I often mention my friends and Choranche neighbors Tineke Bot and Serge Bellier , creators of the magnificent Rochemuse floral park. Here...

I've just been told of an amusing link that can take you to the Antipodes blog by way of Richard Branson , the French photographer Stép...

When people tell you they have rocks in their garden, you normally imagine an idyllic landscape with flowers, shrubs and trees growing on ro...

I took the following fuzzy photo of an old map with my hand-held camera in poor lighting conditions at the Isère Archives in Grenoble: Let m...

This morning, when my ex-neighbor Bob dropped in to pick up his mail, he was a little surprised to discover that a curious wooden structure...

Yesterday, I finished the initial version, in English, of my movie adaptation of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilk...

Over the last couple of months, I've noticed various tiny frailties, almost imperceptible, in my faithful Macintosh keyboard. For exampl...

I don't usually include French-language videos in my blog, but this one is a must, and you don't need to understand French to apprec...

A week ago, nothing was planned. But this Friday, in my personal circle, turned out to be a day of celebration. In the Antipodes, it was a m...

The coloring of this portrait of Don and me is simplistic: That's because the tints were applied manually by me, when I was about eleve...

Click the above image to obtain the original scanned photo. After several decades of cerebral problems, difficult to elucidate and apparentl...