Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

“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 […]

Read Full Post »

Riding Bikes in Paris

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 […]

Read Full Post »

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 […]

Read Full Post »

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 […]

Read Full Post »

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 […]

Read Full Post »

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 […]

Read Full Post »

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 […]

Read Full Post »

  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 […]

Read Full Post »

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 […]

Read Full Post »

From 29 February – 4 April 2012 a fabulous selection of French films will be gracing New Zealand screens during the sixth annual Alliance Française French Film Festival. Proudly sponsored by L’Oréal Paris, the Alliance Française French Film Festival offers a comprehensive national programme over five weeks and nine cities, making it the biggest French […]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »