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Thursday, July 30, 2015

WE HAVE MOVED.

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Hi, We have a new home and you can link to it here: https://africanwanderlust.wordpress.com or on www.wanderlustnlife.com Thank yo...
Friday, July 3, 2015

The Art of the Brick

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Nathan Sawaya's The Art of the Brick exhibition is currently on at Porte de Versailles. It is incredible to see the talent that thi...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Taking stock and readying myself for 'les vacances'

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Funny how when everyone is winding down and readying themselves for their two months of vacation, I feel at my most inspired. I want to spen...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

When a default is not quite a default

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I have been watching the news and the reporting on Greece's situation - at the moment the highlight is on it now officially being in...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Taste of Paris retrospectively

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Building up to last month's Taste of Paris event, the organisers of which  had gone to great lengths in advertising on billboards, tel...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Below ground dining at La Petite Cour, Paris 6th

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I met a friend here for lunch recently and can say that I will definitely return. I made reservations for a table on their expansive terra...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Lunch in the neighbourhood - Le Saint Ferdinand, Paris 17th

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The pleasure of a short stroll around the neighbourhood and a late afternoon family lunch over the weekend. As much as the advice to anyon...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Musée Picasso, Paris

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I had friends from South Africa visiting Paris two weeks ago, and it was during our moments visiting the tourist spots and walking around ...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Touring Chinatown, Belleville

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A guided walking tour of Belleville a couple of weeks ago revealed a world I would otherwise not have stumbled upon. Belleville straddles ...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Eating at Les Chouettes in the Marais

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Having read several reviews for Les Chouettes - which I thought to be the adjective, meaning fantastic or terrific , but when I saw the l...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

On being a shoplifter

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"Browsing bookshops then buying online is a 'genteel form of shoplifting'", this according to David Nicholls, in an articl...
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Monday, April 6, 2015

On putting down roots as an expat

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Source:www.snowflakesincalifornia.blogspot.com It is Spring and in readying myself for a new season I have been tossing, restoring and o...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Traditional Easter lunch at La Societé, St.Germain-des-Prés

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Not quite a traditional Easter Sunday lunch, but it was for us in that coming here has become something of a tradition. My family is fa...
Friday, April 3, 2015

Snapshots of Lisbon, a city steeped in maritime history

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Monument of Discoveries, Belém I have been sitting on this write up for a while now, just trying to workout how I felt about Lisboa b...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Books: PELT AND OTHER STORIES by Catherine McNamara

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Title: Pelt and Other Stories Author: Catherine McNamara Published: 2013 Genre: Fiction In between my getting stuck into the novels o...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Putting the words on a page

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In the past week I have had numerous conversations with different people in my life about the challenges of 'getting the words on paper...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

On Reading South Africa

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André Brink (1935 - 2015). Photo source: africavivre.com In making my ambitious plans to read everything and anything this year, I deci...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Gastronomy: "Le Frank" at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

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I finally got to see the recently opened Frank Gehry-designed glass monument that is the Fondation Louis Vuitton . It truly is a marvel ...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Urban artists pay hommage to Dalí

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Being a sunny, if chilly day, we bundled up and headed out to Montmartre. My daughter, with her keen interest in street art or urban art w...
Friday, February 6, 2015

On learning a new language

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I had lofty ambitions of regaling you with weekly tales of my Sorbonne stories. But between daily grammar classes,  7:30am classes on writ...
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