Le bateau 2018

Di spotted it first, we were in Paris at the time walking down the hill from Montmatre; that universal leveller, the international thread that bonds… Read More »Broadsword Day 8 22nd

Restaurant Petite Bois Vert (where’s Wally-ette?) Well this sucks.  Another 28 degree shorts and T-shirts day in France!  You can feel the difference here, the… Read More »Deep calls to deep Day 7 21st

I have a friend who has learned to say “I will have two beers please and my friend will pay” in one hundred different languages. … Read More »Ou est la toilette? Day 6 20th

“Hear that honey?”, said I as we sat at our little boulengerie sipping back the first coffee for the day.  “Mmmm” said Di, a sigh… Read More »Motorbikes of Paris Day 5 19th

Only day three?  Our chief concern thus far is sunburn. A brief précis of cafe images; woman on pushbike with cat in shopping bag, Sydney… Read More »Tight Parking Day 4 18th

To the latin Quarter again today but not before a brief sojourn back to the Luxembourg gardens to bask in the gentle leaf filtered spring… Read More »Planning Day 3 17th

Day 1 First day.  Blue sky washed with wee puffy clouds,  cool and still.  We found a small patisserie near our flat for coffee and… Read More »Thank you Sean Day 2 16th

A happily uneventful trip from aus to Paris.  Very full flights on both legs.  The lights kept coming on after they’d started fake-flying-night-time and the… Read More »The Eagle has Landed Day 1 15th

And we’re off!  First the long haul then…Paris!  Yeh

Our original Paris honeymoon map, still intact after 23 years, “Farm to Table French”, for those essential phrases, mostly about wine and cheese, and, “A… Read More »Essental Texts