The Compleat Traveller

I have been sitting on hours of video footage from my 2012 vacation for far too long, and since I am soon to embark on another extended ...

Apollo On Ice, Palace of Versailles I must admit I was not prepared for the grandeur on display at the Palace of Versailles . The s...

My recent viewing of Woody Allen’s latest film, Midnight in Paris , made me nostalgic for that wonderful city, and had me reminiscing a...

Image: The Tuileries Garden , Paris : a stark winter landscape of bare trees, and light snow … During my visit to Paris earlier this mont...

Image: Plan of the chateau of Versailles and the gardens dating from 1746, by the Abbé Delagrive, geographer of the city of Paris . … The ...

Image: Part of the massive main building that is the Palace of Versailles … If you ever needed to be convinced that revolutions – even vio...