(Staying for a week---Michael has another appointment with the ophthalmologist) 

"The Taliban has arrived" (lol) And while we are at it: Sacha, our landlord here, sends this alternative picture of this...

Yes, it's a fox. We met him/her a few days ago in the Esterel park nearby, perhaps one klick from the house. The picture was taken ...

A tiny reptile (I think it's a salamander, not a lizard (Jacki, what's your take on this?)) on the inside of the widow pane of th...

Not a walking stick (around 15:30 today) Update: we sent the link of this post to a few friends with a mistaken allsion to walking stic...

Milka milk chocolate, with the milk from happy cows ---that was the slogan of a chocolate commercial during my youth in Germany. And there...

Praise for Michael Winter's Opus 1: " Die konzertierten Harmonien dieses erstaunlichen Erstwerkes erinnern nicht so sehr an Wa...

Please take a picture of the cows...asked Jo on the phone. So here we are, with cows right on the little patch below the parking lot of the ...

A former minister of finance of France, he had been married to one of the most beautiful, intelligent, and richest women of the country: An...

North of Grasse, at ca 1200m altitude, the Cote d'Azur features a plateau of surprising dimensions, built into the mountains, as it wer...

Richard Cohen has a nice piece in the International Herald Tribune about today, the shortest day of the year on the northern hemisphere. ...