View from Across La Manche

Highly strung hibernation. It appears this is my tenth report on our life here in France and it marks the approach of our second anniversary of the move across La Manche. We relocated early in December […]

We’re going to start this month’s column with an apology. Not for us the way of the tabloids, to bury apologies in some long dusty corner, we screw up, we’re front and centre about it! Friends […]

The sun has set on summer. Despite the continuing high temperatures and bright sunny days, summer is officially over. So it’s nice to be back, ruminating on life here in France. Once the 1st of September […]

Canicules, Courgettes and Creedence. Summer in France is a wonderful time. The children are out from school, holidays are being anticipated and, in the villages, the night markets have started. The night markets are really just […]

Travel, temperature and twang. As Europe slowly returns to some semblance of ‘normal’ I found myself on the move recently, travelling up to Germany to cover an international conference and interview some of the participants. Knowing […]