VaubanToMaginot

On the Sunday of my visit to Ile de Ré, I wanted to visit the Fort de La Preé. This is along the coast to the east of St Martin de Ré. I c...

We spent Saturday at Headingly, the home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, to see day 2 of the second  test. Actually it turned out to be da...

Three days ago I was praising Stephen Brumwell's biography "George Washington : Gentleman Warrior". This morning I see the au...

So far, 2013 has been a good year for science fiction. On Sunday we went to the cinema to see the new Star Trek film. I've not much to a...

For our summer holiday, in September last year my partner and I went to Bodrum in Turkey for a good poolside lounge and piggy eat-out. One o...

Back from Ile de Ré and La Rochelle, feeling a proper lemon. I took our Canon camera and the battery charger lead but not the battery charge...

I just had to share these marvellous pictures of Chasseurs a Pied from the Second Empire period. My thanks to Facebook page of "Le...