One year, one month ago and three weeks ago the fatal shooting of the Iraqi-born Brit Saad Al-Hilli, his wife and her mother, as well as that of Frenchman Sylvain Mollier took place in France on a lay-by in a forest near to a hamlet named Chevaline. The Al-Hilli couple’s eldest child, a daughter named […]
Paris is a dream-come-true when it comes to exhibitions this autumn (fall)/winter season. I mean, Paris always is, but this season it’s going to be exceptional. Herewith what you will be able to feast your eyes on: Louvre. Ah, the old faithful Louvre! Here There are the permanent exhibitions where you will see […]
What is open on Christmas Day and on New Year’s Day: Museums and Chateaux: NO Note: Those museums and Chateaux which are normally closed on a Tuesday, will therefore this year be closed both on Tuesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 25, and on Tuesday, December 31 and Wednesday, January 1. Shops: NO Note: Souvenir […]
Ask anyone anywhere who was Dr Marcel Petiot and the answer will be, “No idea”, or perhaps, “Was he a French footballer, or a French actor?” Even in France, Dr Petiot’s homeland, it will be unlikely for someone younger than 50 years of age to know who this man was. Marcel Petiot murdered Jews […]
On November 5, 2009, Tony Musulin, the driver of a Loomis cash transporter, drove off with $15 million. It happened in the city of Lyon. A few days after the robbery, hallelujah, the money was found in a Lyon lock-up basement garage. But nowhere to be found was Musulin, and so too […]
I have signed a contract with Dave Lyons of Raven Crest Books for two novels and a cookbook. (Raven Crest Books published my Die in Paris this year in both e-book and paperback.) The two novels are: Bella … a French Life and For the Love of a Poet. Both are sad love stories. […]
One year and one month ago the fatal shooting of the Iraqi-born Brit Saad Al-Hilli, his wife and her mother, as well as that of Frenchman Sylvain Mollier took place in France on a lay-by in a forest near to a hamlet named Chevaline. The Al-Hilli couple’s eldest child, a daughter named Zainab, […]