“Could I please have the menu.” I asked “Ya prosto poydu za toboy.” replied the waiter in the restaurant. “I’d like to order this dish here please” “No vam eto ne ponravitsya, yego morozhenoye” he replied. I think we’ve all been in the situation where we are in a foreign country and we struggle to […]
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Learning a Language by Skype
Posted in Holiday, Tourism, Travel, tagged learning a language, VerbalPlanet on April 4, 2018 | 1 Comment »
Riding Bikes in Paris
Posted in France, Paris, Travel, tagged Cycling, Paris Apartment on January 24, 2017 | 1 Comment »
Having recently spent a wonderful week in Paris, John Reese asked us to write about the “Velib” cycle sharing system which we used with great success during our stay. We thoroughly recommend you give it a go. You’ll see the bikes parked in stations all over Paris – there are 1,800 stations (one every 300 […]
Sharing Two Countries
Posted in France, Paris, Travel, tagged Latin Quarter Apartment, Paris Apartment, Paris History on December 9, 2016 | 10 Comments »
I have chosen a life which lives in two countries. France. New Zealand. When we bought an apartment in the Latin Quarter of Paris I was overcome by the fact that our building had been built over four hundred years before. It was this knowledge that made me dream of everything the walls of our […]
Travelling with Children?
Posted in France, Holiday, Travel, tagged France, Traveling with children on August 5, 2016 | 1 Comment »
I’ve calculated that since my children started travelling with my wife and I, we as a family have travelled nearly 5 million kilometres. That’s a lot of airline meals, and a lot of experiences! There are three things that I particularly like about travelling with your kids: Giving your children the opportunity to travel as […]
Escorted Tours for 2015
Posted in France, Travel, tagged Amalfi Coast, Crete, Escorted Tours, Morocco, Puglia on December 9, 2014 | 2 Comments »
Escorted Tours 2015: Greek Islands, Italy, France, Portugal and Morocco For over twenty years I have regularly escorted groups through France and Europe. It is at this time of the year when I love planning where I am going to take people on tour for the following year. For the year 2015 I have chosen […]
A Trip on the Canal du Midi
Posted in France, Travel, tagged Canal Boating, Canal du Midi, Carcassonne on April 2, 2013 | 5 Comments »
It’s been a long-held ambition of ours to do a canal boat cruise in Europe, preferably in France. Recently, we bit the bullet, burnt our bridges and booked the boat. In late September, we set off for France, and the Locaboat depot. We traveled via Bordeaux and the Gironde region, a beautiful wine-growing region full […]
France in the Frame
Posted in Art and Photography, France, Travel, tagged France-The French Way, Group Tours, John Reese, Renoir on March 19, 2013 | 2 Comments »
French travel specialist John Reese has invested two decades in changing the way Kiwis feel about France, he tells Cameron Williamson of the Dominion Post Wellington (NZ) To sit in the garden of Renoir’s house, sketching 1000 year old olive trees and hearing the stories of the land, is John Reese’s kind of travel. Twenty […]
Shakespeare in Paris
Posted in Holiday, Paris, Travel, tagged Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Scott Fitzgerald, Shakespeare and Co., Shakespeare and Company Book Shop on November 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
To be lost in a world of words can be as exciting as a visit to the Louvre. To be lost in a world of books, is the experience of visiting the Shakespeare & Co Bookshop in Paris. All tourists make a visit to Notre Dame Cathedral during their time in Paris. But unbeknown to […]
A New President
Posted in France, Travel, tagged Francois Hollande, French Elections, Nicholas Sarkozy on May 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »
It’s been quite a weekend for Europe. A new president for France, and electoral upheaval in Greece, adding to the risks of an unsettled Euro zone. But for Francois Hollande things couldn’t be better. A man who would be equally comfortable living as a butcher in a rural French village, has now ascended to the […]
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