A weekend in Paris. A sentence to make you swoon. Paris makes Britain look like a spotty, gormless teenager, all gangly legs and glum moods. Paris in one word would be elegant. This is true from the moment you arrive a Charles de Gaulle airport, my favourite airport in the whole world; old but not [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Elegant
Posted in Australia, bread, England, expat, food, shopping, travel on January 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
And now the Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are warnings of gales in Forties, Tyne, Dogger, German Bight, Humber, Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey and Southeast Iceland. The general synopsis at 0600: Low Dover 995 losing its identity. Mysterious, slightly hypnotic, mostly completely indecipherable to the average listener: this is the shipping forecast is broadcast on the BBC’s Radio 4 several times a [...]
2010 and 2011, thank you and hello
Posted in Aleppo, archaeology, architecture, Australia, autumn, Berlin, bread, British colonial mansions, cathedrals, chocolate, Christmas, churches, Crete, Cretins, Cyprus, Damascus, day trips, deer, Dodgy taxi drivers, driving, elbow, England, expat, fleas, food, Germany, Greece, history, Italy, Liverpool, manor houses, markets, Morocco, mosques, museums, odd hotels, Ottomans, Phillipine overseas domestic workers, post offices, Recalcitrant stereos, rowing, shopping, singing, smuggling, summer, Sunday, Syria, The Cyprus Question, The Mediterranean Middle Lane, tombs, tourism, travel, Turkey, Uncategorized, Venetians, Volkswagens, Volkswagons, weather, winter, wordless, work, working from home, Xania on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You may have noticed there was something of a blank here at Lucid Ephemera for a few weeks while I went off and did festive things and had a holiday. More details on Italians in puffy jackets and wild boar salami follow in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I hope all of you [...]
