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CELEBRATING CULTURE AT AN ALL NIGHT FESTIVAL

Poster for the 2020 European Nuit des Musees. The idea of celebrating culture with an annual all-night event that brings together all ages and tastes, started back in 1982 a…

THE REMARKABLE PARIS PAGODAS – Part 1

When the cinema was known as LaPagode de Babylone.  Paris has three remarkable and unusual pagodas.  Curiously, only one of them was built as a shrine.  Of the other two, on…

MORE GREAT DESTINATIONS IN PROVENCE!

‘A Wheat Field with Cypresses’ by Van Gogh.  The very name ‘Provence’ conjures up images of brilliant blue skies, ancient golden stone villages with terracotta tiled roofs, …

FAVOURITE VILLAGES OF THE LUBERON

Roussillon and the richly coloured ochre cliffs.  There would be few travellers nowadays who, when they hear or read ‘Luberon’, don’t immediately conjure up the delightful m…