If the great barometer of public opinion Trip Advisor is to be believed then Ha Long Bay is an enigma, both a glorious wonder of the world and a dangerous ...
I chose Versailles. My daughter chose the Paris Catacombs. Continue Reading What’s Wrong with Tulips?
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I have lived in Paris’s 11th arrondissement for over fifteen years. Continue Reading Hymn to an Adopted Home
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The word “loss” is the same whether you’re talking about your car keys or your baby.
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My hospital does not do rape kits. This bothers me but not enough to make me quit.
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The Côte d’Azur was famously dubbed by Somerset Maugham “a sunny place for shady people”. Continue Reading Essay: Host or Hostage
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Samuel Nello on the secrets of these most special of places. Continue Reading At My Local Library
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Britain’s boundary-pushing artistic expression has made it the great hub of culture that it is today. So why, in a recent poll, did 46% support the idea of legal limits ...
Level 1: I am running under the bridge, metro cars of the Maelbeek station above me. Acrid smoke. Helicopters, ambulances, mobile networks down. Fear for loved ones. Chaotic information – ...
Author, Micharl Grothaus delves into the weird subculture of porn fakers and the fans. The fakers, many wielding a talent most graphic designers and art directors could only dream of, ...
Now I wish I had called like I promised, I wish I had kept their information safe, I wish I had called the number on the banner instead of my ...
I could argue about having the lightest skin in my family, though I think my mother would disagree. It’s not clear from the sepia-toned photograph that she’s as light-skinned as ...
The humble T-shirt has come a long way since its origins back in 1913 when they were regulation undergarments for the U.S Navy. Continue Reading The Rock ‘n’ ...
I was born frowning. Frowning is natural to me. Even if my brow isn’t – as the writers say – ‘furrowed’ or the line doesn’t blend between my eyes my ...
Ever since I wanted to live in London, I wanted to live in Notting Hill. Now, I’m not quite sure why the area has such an appeal. Continue ...
If anyone had suggested that, in the future, a sushi bar and an art gallery would open on the street, you’d be branded crazier than the end-of-the-world ranters who would ...
Woolf dared to take herself seriously as a writer, to insist on the importance of her enterprises. This was, to her, the symbolism of the room of one’s own: that ...
Perhaps the obvious question to ask about Adler’s career is why did it disappear? Was she really shut out by a literary and journalistic establishment or did her work simply ...
On the synaesthesia of aroma and art in the Herrera-Harfuch collection. Continue Reading The Herrera-Harfuch Art Collection
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“My mum takes me to Staples to buy a desk, it has a drawer that throws itself open, a place to keep files – I have no files. I have ...
