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We went on holiday to France back in July; our first proper trip abroad with the kids. We decided on France because it meant that we didn...

Just a quick ugly ill-thought-out splurge to express my revulsion and outrage at the Charlie Hebdo massacre earlier today . I really just h...

Two things occurred to me on reading this Independent article about French novelist Michel Houellebecq 's latest successful trolling of...

Looks like we've got another potential exploding whale on our hands. This one is stinking up a beach in the Camargue National Park in...

Everyone else is doing their My Favourite Ryder Cup Moments bit at the moment, so I'm going to get in on the act as well. I actually cam...

We've been on a couple of trips lately that have generated some photos, so this is mainly just somewhere to hang the links from. A few e...

A sporting one for you, featuring one of today's European heroes in the Seve Trophy and current Wales Open champion  Grégory Bourdy , ...

Here's a cool addition to the list of Interesting Things You Can Do With Google Maps - a little widget that shows you where in the worl...

While gingerly making my way through the slush on the way to work this morning I listened to an interesting segment on the Today programme ...

I had to do a quick run down to Tesco to pick up some lunch supplies earlier, and happened therefore to be in the car with Radio 4 on betwe...

The bottle of Highland Park I bought back in early June finally bit the dust the other day, so I had half an eye out for another one while ...

I'll tell you what annoys me about those Stella Artois 4 adverts, since you ask. It's not the general content of the adverts themse...

It's Claude Lelouch 's notorious 1976 short film C'était un rendez-vous , which is essentially a berserk 8-minute drive through ...

Continuing my garlic-crazed immersion in French artistic culture, I watched the DVD of Caché last night. I've had it for a while - pic...

Platform by Michel Houellebecq. I'll start by offering you a couple of metaphors: firstly, stuffing yourself with sweets and chocolate -...

Well, you may not be after reading this interesting article . Maggot-infested cheese anyone? There's a couple more which may be of inter...

Just watched the France-Ireland match in Pool D - not a great game, but very exciting, and a comprehensive enough victory for the French in ...

Wine . Sometimes a bottle just isn't enough . That's an advertising slogan that I think could be a winner for the wine industry, tho...

Much has been written, by, among others, me, about the French elections. Needless to say things didn't go quite as I'd hoped they wo...

....is a slightly grandiose title for a blog post, but there it is. I'm referring to the results of the first round of the French presid...