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When I turned forty, my gynaecologist prescribed me a mammography. However, I threw away the prescription straightaway. It is hard enough to have to come to terms with being forty, single and childless, and I just could not face a breast scan which for...
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Last weekend I was torn between the Archelogical Days and the National Week of Social Housing but ended up attending two walks around the subject of social housing. It was more a choice between exploring the past and the present, - and the present won!...
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It was an item on the televised national news about the exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo which made me cycle across the Seine last weekend to learn about Chanel N° 5. For some reason the Palais de Tokyo is not on my check list for cultural events, but...
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Hand on your heart and tell me where Azerbaijan is and the name of its capital. If you are not quite sure, then I let me immediately admit that I wasn't sure either until I received an invitation to an evening at the Embassy of Azerbaijan. For your information...
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It was a small insert on the last page of one of the maritime newspapers I read at work which caught my attention: an exhibition about fish at risk of extinction. Normally I would not have paid much attention to such a subject, I mean, we get bombarded...
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I must have passed the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at least a dozen times without noticing it. Then I stumbled upon an exhibition that looked interesting and decided to go there yesterday. However, I am ashamed to confess that I could not find it! 107 rue...
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I cannot believe that it has been a month since I last wrote on this blog. I have been on vacation, and since I came back to Paris I have been occupied by mainly two things: the triology of Fifty Shades of Gray and an offer in the cinema whereby every...
Lire la suiteA good way to find out what is going on in the local area is to keep a look on posters in the shop windows, and this was the way I found out that my local CIQ had organised a guided walk in Pernety, which is where I live, on a Sunday afternoon. The subject...
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On a sunny Saturday morning, when the air was still cool, I cycled across Paris to the Jardin des Plantes to admire the blooming cherry trees. Half of Paris seemed to have decided to do likewise, but it is a Parisian tradition to see the cherry trees....
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A street in Marseille with lots of antiquity shops? A tomb stone in the Saint Pierre cimentary in Marseille? Until this evening Edmond Rostand was only a name without a face nor a profession. However, Simone Herault (the voice on the SNCF) gave a delightful...
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