If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well, perhaps, but I think the Ukraine has a very good chance of winning it this year with Shady Lady by Ani Lorak. Like Greece in the year they won, she seems to be touring pretty much the whole […]

In all the times I’ve been to Paris (and there are many) I’ve never actually been in the spring - arguably the classic time to visit. So, it was a bit of a first for both of us.
It looked for a while like things were going to be dodgy weather-wise, and we even packed […]

France in the spring is becoming a tradition. We zizz over on the Shuttle and drive to Boulogne for the afternoon, then head back through Calais to pick up a summer’s-worth of wine and spirits and home in time for bed.
The Shuttle is so easy, and barring a bit of head-scratching and map reading to […]

The Eiffel Tower
Apple seems to take the Paris show far more seriously than London. I remember last year how there were Apple people here prowling the smaller stands to see what people were talking about. This year they’re even patrolling the press room. Admittedly not closely enough to see what you’re writing, but it’s interesting […]

September means Paris in this industry, so here I am again, testing my rather dodgy French on the native speakers. They seem to be largely understanding what I’m on about, which is encouraging.
I’m staying in the 8th, which turns out to be perfectly placed for just about everything. Easy to get down to the Expo, […]

Saturday saw us head to France. I’ve not been since last September, so my language was a little bit mangled, but as I only had to use it in the restaurant and we all got what we wanted to eat anyway, I think I got away with it.
We took Le Shuttle, or Eurotunnel or whatever […]

So we lost Eurovision. We deserved to. Flying the Flag was a terrible song. It was a terrible performance. It was stuck in the 80s, and proved just how pinned to the past the UK is. We got 19 points, which is 13 more than we deserved. And the only reason we deserved just 13 […]

I used to like The British Museum. For the building as much as anything else. Then, last summer, I went to Greece and visited the largely incomplete Acropolis. I looked up at the gaps on the front of the Parthenon, and at the replacement women on the Erechtheion and was sorely disappointed that while I’d […]

Clearing out the pictures on my phone this morning, three quick snaps I took on my travels cropped up. First, unintentional Bulgarian comedy, or using sex to sell a banana split? I’m not so sure:

When my work here at MacUser is done, perhaps I’ll take on a role at gossip mag Fanny magazine.

And my first […]

Well, Transylvania to be precise, but Bucharest for the first few days of the week and, by tomorrow, a little town on the Hungarian border. For the moment, though, I’m enjoying the high life in the Romanian Alps, where the clouds swoop in across the town in the morning and by afternoon they are just […]