Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2014
The small quaint stores in the area where one walks past Sainte Chapelle and Palais de Justice to reach the Notre-Dame cathedral are forever busy selling intricate symbols of religious mythology. We found these figurines of everyone from apostles to demons and forever alert gargoyles and decided to walk fast as we had already spent...
Best isn’t necessarily pricey
Well, let me admit here that I’ve been to a lot of countries and obviously I have nearly always stayed in hotels. So from Paris to Seoul, from Amsterdam to Bangkok, from London to Sydney, or from Barcelona to Kuala Lumpur… I’ve always sought the best hotel deal. And believe me the right research always...
A bird, a cookie, and a lesson in love in Paris
July 2014. Paris. This was the day I realised that it isn’t cookies that make birds fearless but children who simply love them. We were waiting in a queue to enter Notre-Dame de Paris when a small girl said to her grandfather, ‘Will those sparrows come to me, granpa?’ ‘Yes, they can, if you want...
There’s a lot of poetry in sex
Relationships creatively thrive on uncovering ‘the unheard melodies’, if I may be permitted to quote Wordsworth here… and we know of poets allowing their minds to venture forth to touch, caress, and mate with an idea before they are able to whisk it with words to write immortal lines. The sequence of the writing of...
