The Solitary Walker

Pisa's Cathedral Square (or Square of Miracles ). Here you can see, from left to right, the Baptistry, the Cathedral and the Leaning...

A quarter way up Ben Nevis in August 2009. After 1500 posts, if it's possible (it isn't) to distil the essence of ...

I conjure up an imaginative Paris, half-real, half-mythical: Jacques Prévert scribbling poems on café tablecloths; Baudelaire, in drug-indu...

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day. ERNEST HEMINGWAY

On the Monday I took a train from Bordeaux to Paris. This journey under grey skies brought me back to earth with a jolt. The landscape I pa...