Antipodes

My highfalutin title simply designates touristic travel excursions motivated by family-history interests. So, a good example of a genea-pilg...

Lots of dumb folk, thinking themselves smart, send fake comments to my Antipodes blog, with links to their own dull blogs. In doing this, ...

A century separates these two photos taken at exactly the same spot in a northern neighborhood of London. The older lady was Mart...

I took this lovely photo (untouched) from my bathroom window about an hour ago. In my title, the term "sunset" is mislead...

In the context of my genealogical research, I was intrigued, if not amused, by the behavior of my ancestor Charles Walker [1807-1860], prob...

François Skyvington leads an extremely busy existence. Over the last few years, my son has been working almost non-stop on his 30-minute m...

Click to enlarge On the left, my Gamone neighbor Jackie Ageron is wearing his special beekeeper’s jeans, designed to give the little ...

Can you see him? Click to enlarge He’s dark green, like the foliage. With a long tail. He's not particularly apprehensive. He ...

A fabulous French catamaran named the Flying Phantom was introduced to the international sailing world at the Paris Boat Show 2013. Its rev...

Today or tomorrow... We won't be asked to choose a date. Brilliant exposé of everyday threats. Our ubiquitous enemy is …

In my blog post of 22 March 2010 entitled First rural residence [ display ], I described a simple roadside house in the country to the west...

Last year, I was delighted by the month-long presence of several beautiful finches at Gamone, from the middle of February to the middle of ...

[ breaking news, Saturday afternoon, February 22, 2014 ] I hope my blog title is not naively over-optimistic... A few weeks ago, I was en...