This postcard is pretty interesting in the fact that it is in color (black and white pictures that has been painted over). Also the cannon that is depicted, the French 75 mm field gun seems to have been a big deal back then, it even has its own wikipedia […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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I don’t know about you, but I had no idea flying fish could be eaten until that day a few months ago, when there was one on my plate: How was it? Honestly, it didn’t leave a great impression as I don’t remember exactly. However, I think I […]
I haven’t written anything about the events of last Friday night in Paris. Not sure why. Maybe I don’t really feel like expressing myself about them yet. Maybe I simply don’t have much to add to the whole thing. That and the fact that it feels so unreal to […]
(asked by Anne from DC and – probably- currently in France) The other day when I was visiting a friend in Paris, I noticed that one of the names listed on the interphone in her building was the Comtesse de Something (I can’t remember what). So what’s the deal? France […]
I don’t know much about the Château de Montfort, except that it is located in the village of Vitrac, in the Dordogne department. It is first mentioned in the year 866, and it has seen many battles in the Middle-Ages, and was razed and rebuilt several times and has […]
Avignon – Porte de la République – City entrance and Boulevard St-Roch. As you can see on Google Maps, the walls are still there, but everything else has greatly changed.
If you want to see koalas up close and personal, and you don’t live in Australia, but in Europe, may I suggest the Beauval zoo?
Just an abstract doodle… a collaboration between my daughter and my wife. It’s nothing (in every possible meaning of the term) but I like it.