The Compleat Anglo in the Pays Basque

29th January 2010 . I was walking through Saint-Jean-de-Luz the other day listening to snatches of conversations from passers-by (as you do...

21st October 2009. We’re the warmest place in France today at 21C.. Paris is down at around 12C. I thought I’d give Madame a break ...

I think we'd been in the house for 2 months and we had just about got ourselves straight when our first visitors arrived.. By the end o...

I’m glad my stay in hospital is behind me.. I’ve just got to go back on 28th January for a final check-up. The staff were really friendly a...

A day or two later we had to go to the tax office in Bordeaux to straighten out some administrative wrangle. We finished the business there...