Antipodes

In the village of Choranche, our church is humble but ancient. It was one of two churches in the commune of Choranche, mentioned for the fir...

Over the weekend, the world has witnessed three splendid victories of Australians. First, there was the arrival in Sydney of 16-year-old Jes...

From time to time (but not often), I've met up with gifted artists capable of creating portraits. On such occasions, I've always won...

Once upon a time, up until quite recently, there was a semblance of mutual concern, at a political level, between elected Australians and th...

I don't spend much time in the village of Choranche, because it's a couple of kilometers up in the "wrong direction". What...

I've always liked this key ring, which was given to me by my daughter Emmanuelle soon after I moved into Gamone and invited the young d...

In general, the weather here is not too bad, but there's a tendency towards dampness. Admittedly, we don't live in a monsoon zone, f...

Everybody in France has heard of the Concours Lépine , which has become part of popular (people-oriented) French culture. Started in 1901, i...

A couple of young guys just dropped in to inform me that, all day tomorrow, the electricity will be cut in the neighborhood while they clear...

In last Saturday's article entitled Sophia photo update [ display ] , I explained that I had found a colony of baby snails a hundred me...

I know this is going to sound silly, but I'll say it all the same. Ever since my youth, I've been intrigued by the philosophy of mor...

Yesterday, my dog complained that it's ages since I last spoke about her or included her photo in the Antipodes blog. (Well, a fortnigh...

My friend Yves Tallineau has just sent me a couple of photos dating from 1969, when we were working together in Paris in a software company...

A few days ago, a short break in the wet weather gave me a chance to remove as many weeds as possible from my strawberry patch. The bushes a...

Researchers have finally succeeded in using tiny samples of powdered bone, 40 thousand years old, to sequence the Neanderthal genome. The te...

It was the archaic evangelist Billy Graham , a sort of circus mesmerizer of crowds, who succeeded in convincing the US Congress, in 1952, to...

All France has been damp and dismal for the last week. In my recent article entitled Wet world [ display ] , I explained that the Cournouze...

There's some nice funny stuff on this website. Click the banner to see a great piece of live reporting concerning a landslide in the Phi...

I've always been intrigued by the way in which the curious mammals of the species Homo sapiens , known for their almost hairless skins a...

The Dutch airline KLM has been operating commercial flights between Europe and Australia since before World War II. Judging from its graphic...