The Aveline Museum must be the most difficult museum to get to in France: certainly, the most difficult to get to in the Paris region known as the Ile de France. I visited this museum for the first time on Thursday, May 17 this year (2018), and believe me, I nearly did not get to […]
One would say that there is not much to the town of Bourg-la-Reine, and there is not. However, almost every day tourists turn up: many Americans or British, but a fair number of Germans too. So, why? Why do so many foreigners come to this town? The answer: a Sherman tank. A M4 […]
You are sitting down in a Paris restaurant, and you are hungrily waiting for your order to be served. You have ordered Blanquet de Veau – a delicately-flavoured veal stew. And here comes the waiter, and when he puts the plate of food down on the table in front of you, you nearly faint. It […]