A corner of France

My excuse is that the French pronounce it "bee-oh". A beautiful Sunday morning with the first sunny-but-crisp overtones of Autum...

It was a couple of years ago now I was in the USA on a holiday trip, and the hotel where I was staying had an exercise treadmill.  So I gave...

The French weekend of the journées de patrimoine has just come and gone.  It's a weekend in which you can visit private buildings and p...

This pot is of turned burl wood, I picked it up in a craft show ages ago.  It appealed to me because the artist has stained the raw wood in ...

I find elegance in simplicity.  If something is simple, but works as well as something more complicated, I prefer the simple.  What's mo...

We arrived at Chenillé-Changé, and the first thing you see is a mill with an insane crenelated tower attached to it.  Apparently inspired by...

After our visit to the Chateau de la Lorie in the morning we ambled back to Segré and had lunch in the Chat Gris, a créperie right next to t...