Antipodes

There has been a lot of talk on the Internet about a 15-year-old Canadian lad, William Gadoury , who indicated a remote place in the jungle...

The municipal authorities do their best to inform visitors that they must not forget that the tide rises and falls once a day... as it ...

If you find yourself in this kind of situation, don't forget to check constantly that the appearance and size of the animals are not cha...

After the terrorist attack, holes left by bullets in the   window  of the bar  La Bonne Bière  were filled with red roses.

This weekend, I plan to make an effort to avoid watching the world's most idiotic TV show, Eurovision . The craziest thing of all is ...

The Left has lost its way. They're wandering around in the desert, but without a map or a compass. The prime minister Manuel Valls  woul...

This evening I watched a fascinating TV show on ancient archaeology, produced by an excellent US team from the University of Arkansas, whose...

Observers are going to say that, in a city whose new mayor is Muslim, it's nice to find Allah moving around on the celebrated red bu...

I would imagine that many French people are shocked by this affair. As much as the French are not necessarily narrow-minded about sexua...

Researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia attempted to discover factual data proving that mobile phones, since their intro...

Denis Baupin is a deputy of Paris, and a vice-president of the National Assembly. After a fortnight of investigations, two prominent p...

Here's a studio photo of my grandfather Ernest Skyvington [1891-1985] with his parents William Skyvington [1868-1959] and Eliza Mepham...

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This is the kind of sweet weekend that I've been looking forward to constantly since my return to my wonderful  mas de Gamone six month...

A poll published yesterday indicates that the popularity level of François Hollande has descended to its lowest level ever since the st...

The movie 2001 : A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick made a huge and lasting impact upon me. The monolithic slab seems to be a gi...

For the Nth time, this evening's main TV documentary showed me an album of glimpses of my extraordinary "back yard", the Verco...

The theme of this blog post is silly, which explains why I've never mentioned it before... neither in my Antipodes blog nor even in pri...

I'm always pleased to hear about a movie that I won't need to watch. News of that kind saves me time and money, and enables me to st...

For the first time ever (if I'm not mistaken), the French press shows a photo of Manuel Valls alongside Malcolm Turnbull  in Australia....