Le Sculpteur

Le Sculpteur

I spent a great day in the autumn sunshine towards the end of October at a local Arts fair where artists of all sorts were displaying their work and busy showing how it was done. Pascal, a friend and fantastic sculptor was busy adding his signature to a stone wall in...
Avignon Festival of Theatre

Avignon Festival of Theatre

Back in July, I spent an amazing weekend at the Festival of Theatre at Avignon in France. It is the largest theatre festival in the world, which lasts a whole month and has over 900 registered shows – that’s not including all the street performers either....
The Language of Fragrance

The Language of Fragrance

How do you describe a smell or fragrance?  Is there an established language, like wine tasters have to describe the best and latest vintages?  Is this a cheeky fruity little number, or a chocolaty fragrance?  … Why might I want to? I was out walking the dogs...
Holland at Night

Holland at Night

I’ve just returned from a very wet weekend in Utrecht, a town not far from Amsterdam.  We tried a number of times to get out with the camera but most of the time it was just too wet.  I don’t have a rain proof cover for my camera, so just had to wait for a...

The Monolith

It was beautiful weather here in the Languedoc region of France last week and we took the opportunity to spend a couple of days down by the beach next to the large and very modern marina town of Gruissan. I spent a wonderful evening wandering around the marina with...