Wanderlust & Life

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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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