road trip

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there..  Lewis Carroll. But for sheer simplicity, I…

market fashion

Scarves are not worn as fashion accessories in central France this time of the year. And summer’s leaves –despite their layered…

back on the map

Jets can do it in three hours. Satellites in just over two minutes. But for us in the Green Dragon,…

copy migration

Ask any bird about migration, and they all say the same thing:  “seasonal movement starts months before it’s time to…

the language of lego

It was well into the afternoon by the time we parked up lakeside in the small French town of St.…

Kitchener’s pointed finger

We could have left our rubbish lying around. We could have snapped branches off trees for the evening’s fire.  We…

looking up

Amidst a million luminous dots, our gaze searched habitually for the Southern Cross on a clear winter’s night. The familiarity…

Fr-Anglais

Language and oxygen. We’re consumed by both from our time of arrival until we shuffle off again. – Take either…

The French Haka

France leads the world in cheese consumption. With over 400 varieties to choose from, it’s possible to eat a new…