The promise of spring. I am reminded of it daily when walking outside the door at Chassenat. A group of flowers (crocusses?, daffodils?, tulips?) is breaking through the earth and …
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11 feb
The travel industry is a kind of legalized crime. Maybe it’s not the whole travel industry, but airline companies are intrinsically criminal. I’ve always thought that from the first moment …
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10 feb
Reading ‘Bending Prosperity’. A book by FT-journalist David Pilling about the way Japan dealt with the aftermath of the tsunami in 2011. A fascinating book, which lifts a few of …
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8 feb
We have not seen a lot of television in the past five months. In Merlin, life is filled with unnoticeable events that pass by without noticing, but leave us no …
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9 feb
Finished reading about WWI, having to submit a review tomorrow. I’ve written earlier about Catastrophe, a magnificent book by Max Hastings. Was reading the last days in ‘Saving the City’, …
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Expectations
The world is a good place, isn’t it. Isn’t it? We wake up each morning thinking something good awaits us or at least nothing bad. Despite the wars, the destruction …
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7 feb
We drove around to see more churches. We had heard about the monolithic church in Aubeterre. To be honest, I had never heard of a monolith church. It turns out …
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6 feb
There are different levels of disappointment in life. The fact that our boulanger in Brantome is closing doors for two weeks is a disappointment on a level that might be …
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5 feb
Walking is thinking, clearly. But some walking is also plain brainless. Like my walking yesterday. I woke up and the sky looked promising, Not trusting this Perigord sky I waited …
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4 feb
I went for a walk again. Walking is thinking, of course. And in my case, thinking is counting. At one point it struck me that we must have passed the …
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