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Feeling oddly confident, clairvoyant even, I entered a bar to place a bet on Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.…
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Scotching my bright idea of a stiff gin for Dutch courage in the bar across the road, Catriona bounded straight…
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Hairpin bends in a stony forest. Downhill. Steep, then steeper. Smooth frictionless tarmac. I’ve got the car barely under control.…
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The old dog was in a companionable frame of mind and she trotted along at my side, glancing up now…
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In France I own a dented old Mercedes and in England a dented old Mitsubishi Carina. The Mercedes is parked…
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There was only a handful of us arriving at Bristol on flight 6114 from Nice. Oscar and I had the…
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The Moulinards had inhabited the old stone hilltop house for centuries, ekeing out a hard living among the sun-baked boulders.…
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‘There’s no need to wipe down your tray table,’ screeched Heidi, chief steward of the ‘amazing team you have looking…
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Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur Until January the foreign correspondent lived in a late-18th-century house with a vineyard, olive grove and vegetable garden…
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Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur A burning ball appears over the brow of the hill at seven o’clock every morning and then…
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Phone calls aside, the only human contact I had on my ten-day Somme battlefield tour was with the lady who…
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They are starting to cut the corn. But apart from combine harvesters and tractors, the roads up here on the…
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Bernafay Wood B&B, Somme, France I came up on the TGV yesterday from the Midi to northern France and it…
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Avid Spectator reader Mr Brown had endured the very strictest of lockdowns for family health reasons in Tunbridge Wells. Since…
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Chatting on the café terrace with my new friends Didier and Emile made me aware that certain political ideas, which…
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I took a table on the terrace of the reopened bar and ordered une pression from the waitress. ‘Back to…
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I walked to the salon in fiery sunshine. Gorgeous, zaftig Elody was wearing a short satin dressing gown of silver…
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Saturday night we ate outside next to the floodlit rock face. Four adult guests came puffing up the path and…
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When I first came to this village, I was told that one of the bars was a ‘communist’ bar and…
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The most visible local landmark is a solitary two-headed Jurassic mountain called Le Bessillon, six miles long and 800 metres…
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France is divided into a red zone and a green zone. We’re green. Green for go. From this morning we…
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They made a better job of sorting out my waterworks
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Once a week we break French emergency law and have a friend round for drinks on the terrace. The terrace…
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In 2001, aged 44, I was hired to write a weekly column for this august paper, and for the first…
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In a cave once used as a stable and now abandoned, I found a wooden crate containing a dozen tiny…
