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For the last week or so, François Skyvington has been involved in the start of the shooting of a new TV series of moped adventures, to be p...

[Google Maps image — Click to enlarge] Route Saussine 15 Only of late have I come to see this house As something poisoned when I paid for it...

I've always been intrigued by the enigmatic sad smile of the Aussie polly Craig Thomson . As Craig looks back nostalgically upon his pas...

With hindsight, we can understand anything and everything. Theoretically, on 9 September 2001, the western world received a clear message th...

François Hollande is behaving correctly when he draws attention to the fact that his current success in voting-opinion polls is no guarante...

At Coffs Harbour, over the four days starting next Thursday, this is the Citroën automobile to admire: Here's a rear view of this vehicl...

Starting next Thursday, Rally Australia will be taking place near my birthplace: more precisely, in several rural zones in the vicinity of ...

This true story about a French thief is similar—on the surface—to the anecdote described in my recent blog post entitled Lovers lanes for an...

My friend Tineke Bot has often claimed that she can distinguish spontaneously and effortlessly dozens of different shades of green. Here in...

This photo, taken this morning on the road just up from my house at Gamone, shows Fitzroy posing proudly in front of a hole that he had dug...

You probably saw the story in the world media, a few weeks ago, about the French actor Gérard Depardieu at the start of a flight from Dubli...

In competitive track cycling, there's a curious technique—in the two-person racing format known as sprinting —that consists of standing ...

Electricité de France ( EDF ), the national French electricity authority, has purchased a series of four giant tidal-energy turbines, which...

Some children's books can be appreciated by readers who ceased, long ago, to be children. No doubt the finest cases of such literature a...

Two months ago, my left leg was pinned to the ground by a branch of a felled walnut tree that I was cutting up with a chainsaw. A few weeks ...

I can't help loving Americans. [And I promise not to use a single swear-word in this blog post.] They're innocent childlike observ...

To be perfectly honest, I haven't yet actually paid my fees to become a genuine member of the Parti Socialiste , but this will no doubt ...

Once upon a time, when I dropped in to Grand Central Station to see what it looked like, I recall that it wasn't quite as empty as today...

In my recent blog post entitled Wonders of the world [ display ] , I evoked the 58-year-old Israeli-born Oxford scientist David Deutsch . ...