Grey it certainly is, but how influential is hard to tell. I walked about in the heart of Paris yesterday, until fading light and some spatters of rain drove me…

A refreshing trip to another region of France… …made less refreshing by the second unprecedented heat wave this year. However most of my day was spent in my rental car,…

For eight dollars a night, don’t expect more than simple pleasures. The kind of which are probably disappearing, as being too readily available to poor folk and people with kids…

Not in the Alps, but still woke up to this! It is very rural here, and the crossing into Switzerland across the Doubs River was remote and mysterious, with snow…