It’s one thing to go away on a trip. It’s another thing to come back. What happens when the dream trip is over? At first it’s okay. For one thing, you’re so exhausted you don’t care where you are. And then you get to phone all your friends and everyone says, “How was France? I [...]
My battle with EasyJet
Now I’m not one to complain (oh, who am I kidding?) but after our EasyJet flight was cancelled from Paris to Nice because of flight crew problems last June and we were given a form outlining the compensation we would be entitled to, only to be told three weeks later that our flight had been [...]
From snail slime to sheep cells: bizarre spa treatments that use animal products
If you thought my article on spa treatments that use live animals was strange, treatments that use animal products (read my latest article here) get even weirder. Yet in some cases, they’re also effective, pricey and celebrities love them. Would I use bird poop in my facial as they do in Japan? Yes. I mean, [...]
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Spa Reviews
Get beasty – Add an animal to your next spa treatment
If Demi Moore can lie down with a few leeches, what’s to stop you from trying a wellness therapy with a horse, a snake or even an imaginary dolphin? To read more about animal spa therapies, check out my latest article at Examiner.com.
France
Renting a motorbike in France ie will I live through this day?
After a big fight with my boyfriend over the dangers of renting a motorbike (I didn’t want him to so he rented one anyway), I was so mad that I got on the bike. I’m serious. I didn’t know what else to do. We seemed to be at a stalemate and that’s the only thing [...]
France
Easyjet cancelled my flight- arghhhh!
I’m not knocking Paris, but when you’re all set to leave Paris and fly to Nice for your 6-day seaside holiday, it’s a major pain in the arse when, after an interminable and chaotic lineup, first the computers go down so you can’t check in, then a small group ahead of you turns into a [...]
Art
Paris in a heat wave … go to the Louvre
It would have been pretty embarrassing to go to Paris and not go to the Louvre, especially when our apartment is right across the street from the gargantuan museum. Our balcony overlooks the east end of it and we’ve spent a lot of time watching other people go in, come out, and mill around. Not [...]
Cevennes
Our last night in the Cevennes
It’s our last night at the chateau Bussas. Our French wilderness idyll is over. Every day since Wednesday Mark and I have had a running conversation of, “oh no, I can’t believe we have only 3/2/1 more days” or “where has the time/day/morning gone?” or “how can it be over already.” Then, last night, Mark [...]
Cevennes
Scary Roads of the Cévennes
Robert Louis Stevenson may have trod this perilous area with a donkey named Modestine in his short novel Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes written in 1879, but that was nothing compared to driving these routes with a GPS, a difficult finicky animal Mark and I have named, appropriately, Modestine. The Cévennes is a [...]
France
In the middle of nowhere
The good thing about renting this villa in France is that it was actually there when we showed up. After reading a trashy novel about a group of people who rented a villa in St Tropez only to find that it was an abandoned wreck I was mighty pleased when we turned up deep in [...]
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