2012-09-22 21:41
Talking about chateaux makes me think what’s the difference between a chateau and a castle? a chateau and a palais – or a castle and a palace?
A chateau can be a castle – t… Read More
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2012-09-20 21:41
After a recent trip I thought I’d post on these two chateaux, both a half hour or so of driving from Chartres. They’re two castles that compared to, say, Amboise or Chambord, are… Read More
2012-01-27 22:13
Lares et penates; the household gods. We think of God as a single, omnipotent presence; but if you were Roman, you had your own gods, the gods of your household. Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, were… Read More
2012-01-13 14:44
Technology is a wonderful thing. But from helping us to achieve what we wanted to in life, it has started to fill our lives with things that it wants us to do. Facebook is useful when you wa… Read More
2011-12-22 23:03
One of the great things about travelling is that, deprived of the meretricious attractions of the internet, I get to catch up with my reading. It can be slightly random, depending on what I… Read More
2011-12-13 15:03
Somehow I just can’t get to love Paris.
I can love individual things about Paris. The beehives in the Jardin du Luxembourg, for instance. (Les ruches; they sound so much more interesti… Read More
2011-12-05 22:37
Some things you remember from childhood so clearly. Others fade with time. Some things stay with you for ever, but you can’t remember their names. I remember a gorgeous illustrated boo… Read More
2011-12-05 22:03
Some of my favourite buildings in England are tollhouses, gatehouses to country estates, pavilions. They have a certain charm that you rarely find in larger buildings – the same miniat… Read More
2011-10-23 23:07
Ej blot til lyst
There’s a marvellous scene at the start of Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, where the camera slowly pans down from the proscenium of a toy theatre to its stage, wi… Read More
2011-10-14 12:56
I regularly write for London Hotels Insight and a number of other blogs, and I’m pleased to have contributed a couple of guest articles to Velvet Escape;
http://velvetescape.com/2011/1… Read More
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