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Paris Paintings and a Rhinoceros

Here, now, is the last of my three posts on the May Paris visit.  I wanted to return to the Sainte Chapelle (www.monuments-nationaux.fr), which I had visited as a teenager and found very beautiful. It is a relatively small building, constructed almost 800 years ago. There is a lower chamber, then you climb the stepsContinueContinue reading “Paris Paintings and a Rhinoceros”

London treats and tailors’ thimbles

Although I was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the North-East of England, I grew up in a village in the Buckinghamshire countryside. A forty-minute train journey from the nearby town was enough to take you to London for a ‘day out’. So a day in the capital equals a special treat for me – and nowContinueContinue reading “London treats and tailors’ thimbles”