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Van Gogh transformed in Paris

January 10, 2024April 10, 2024 - 8 Comments.

Standing atop Montmartre, I gazed across Paris to the Eiffel Tower and tried to picture Vincent Van Gogh being happy here. He and the city were transforming.

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I just want to walk around Paris with you: “Midnight in Paris” came to life

December 15, 2023April 10, 2024 - 11 Comments.

I waited on the church steps for the magical Peugeot, the time-travel portal that whisked writer Gil Pender into 1920s Paris to meet Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Stein in “Midnight in Paris.”

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Steak, Paris, Evita: so many reasons to love Buenos Aires

March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 - 2 Comments.

Many cafés, curly wrought-iron balconies on elegant stone buildings, shady parks with benches under pink-flowering trees – Buenos Aires was indeed as lovely as we’d been led to think.

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Manchester’s Fab 4 includes England’s oldest public library

January 3, 2026January 3, 2026 - 6 Comments.

Dark oak bookshelves, subdued lighting, gently creaking floors and that unmistakable odour of aging paper, leather and bookbinding glue. Chetham’s Library – amongst several notable Manchester libraries – thrilled me from head to toe.

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