The Compleat Traveller

Say, What? The Art of Kissing Fanny! One of my favourite blogs is the very eclectic Messy Nessy Chic . Vanessa, or ’Nessy’ as she ref...

Why do we do it? Is it because of the clever marketing? The fact that the portrait is the work of Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest a...

View of the Luxembourg Palace and main fountain and boat pond. The Luxembourg Palace is located at 15 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arr...

My room with a view (sort of) In a recent post Introducing AirBnB , I provided some background information to one of the fastest grow...

River scene, Cambodia If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ then thirty-five thousand pictures must be worth thirty-five million w...

Today I turn 66, ( Happy Birthday, Jim ). I am spending the day preparing for a house sitting stint for a home owner heading to Euro...

Parisian river scene  I recently returned from an almost four month extended vacation spent mostly in Greece, but with a two week side ...

~  Back in January 2011, I wrote about a Gold Ring Scam  I fell for while visiting Paris during the winter of 2010. Recently, I was rem...

I quite like how the French don’t just give you street names, but also include information about the people the streets are named for. For...

For the past six days I have been on vacation in Paris from my vacation in Greece. That is to say, my two week side trip to the City of Ligh...

Some people love Paris in spring, others in the hot, tourist crowded months of summer, and still more in the quieter, cooler weeks of a...

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...

I visited the Musée de l’Orangerie , in Paris during my stay in the ‘City of Lights’, in December 2010. The Museum is an art gallery of i...