Author Archives: JJS
Settling back
🇬🇧 It feels exceptionally good to be home after ten excellent days in Germany, spent doing what holidays are meant for: seeing family, meeting friends, eating far too well and completely losing track of time. I have now been home … Continue reading
Trip to Germany for Xmas
🎄The Suitcase That Knew Better Far too early really. So early, in fact, that even the alarm clock seemed to apologize when it went off at 4:45 a.m. But there are moments in life when sleep must be sacrificed on … Continue reading
Giulietta
🇫🇷 Ode à l’essence super et à l’insouciance Je suis tombé par hasard sur une photo d’une Giulietta exactement comme la mienne. Même couleur, même air de défi mécanique, même promesse de liberté. Années 69 ou 70. Autant dire que … Continue reading
🥐Paris Rules the World (Again!)
🇬🇧 Yes, dear readers — your humble (but très chic) Parisian narrator is gloating just a little: for the fifth year in a row, Paris has been named the world’s #1 city destination in the 2025 ranking by Euromonitor International. … Continue reading
A night with CoverTramp
🇬🇧 Or how Perpignan turned into 1979 Last night, dear readers, we did something wonderfully reckless: we drove all the way to Perpignan for a concert by a band called CoverTramp. Yes, the name does exactly what it says on … Continue reading
The night Burger King ruined my cheese documentary
🇬🇧 I was having a perfectly civilised evening.Picture this: me, tucked comfortably under my warm wobble blanket, watching a delightful documentary about French cheeses—the kind of programme that restores your faith in humanity. Soft cheeses, hard cheeses, smelly cheeses… bliss. … Continue reading
Winter and retirees
🇬🇧 The glorious futility of French digital IDs The weather has suddenly turned a little colder — the kind of cold that whispers, “It might be time to wear socks, old chap.”Naturally, I had been heroically hoping to postpone that … Continue reading
I do it my way 