by Kiff Backhouse | Oct 13, 2010 | Photo Blog
When we moved to the South of France and bought our rambling uncared for house, there were no ends of pots, pans, hooks, fire baskets and the such like left in the “summer” kitchen. Yes, two kitchens, the summer kitchen half-open to the outside, was used...
by Kiff Backhouse | Sep 25, 2010 | Photo Blog
Nîmes is one of those cities that we keep driving past on the auto-route and have never actually stopped to have a look. In fact, the huge residential tower blocks on the out-skirts are enough to put anyone off! But it’s only a couple of hours drive from my...
by Kiff Backhouse | Sep 7, 2010 | Photo Blog
The Contemporary Art Museum in Nîmes faces across an open square towards the only fully preserved Roman temple in the world. Unfortuneately, half of it was under scaffolding when I visited Nîmes last week, so I had to carefully position the reflection to mask those...
by Kiff Backhouse | Aug 4, 2010 | Photo Blog
A small village nestled into the foot hills of the Black Mountains, just a short distance from the famous cite of Carcassonne, Caune Minervois was THE home of marble in France. The first recorded settlement here was in 780AD, although other settlements probably...
by Kiff Backhouse | Aug 1, 2010 | Photo Blog
A photo of the harbour at Cassis, a small sea-side town near Marseille. Cassis is well known as it is the gateway to the Calanques, a strip of rugged limestone coast with long narrow inlets almost like small fjords carved out of the rock. The sea in this area is an...
