Monthly Archives: September 2006

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Canadair Planes. These yellow planes parked in France are aerial water … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Grande Arche. The Grande Arche is a modern Parisian monument which … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours. The French Grand Prix runs every year … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Notre Dame de Paris. This is the Notre Dame de Paris … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Château d’If. The Château d’If is on the small island of … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Château de Versailles. With more than 67 staircases, 700 rooms, 1250 … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Roquefavour Aqueduct. This is the absolutely stunning Roquefavour aqueduct, which carries … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Bottomless Hot Air Balloon. Floating above the Parc André Citroën in … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Mont Saint Michel. The small islet, just off the north coast … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Disneyland Paris. The picture shows the actual Disneyland Park below which … Continue reading →

While Frogsmoke is en vacances, I’ll send you a daily poscard from space, with a little help from Google Sightseeing. Click on the image to view the original sight. Giant Yellow People. A huge ‘children crossing’ sign painted in a … Continue reading →

Renault has pulled the wraps off its Paris stunner called the Nepta Concept – a four-seat convertible with a pair of motor-driven gull-wing doors. Gull-wing doors on a convertible? The doors pivot on an aluminum strip running down the center … Continue reading →

Five years ago today, two French film-makers, Jules and Gedeon Naudet, shot the only known images of the attack on the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. The Naudet brothers were in the process of making … Continue reading →

If you want to blackmail the president you’d better get your spelling right: A man from Avignon was arrested after sending dozens of insulting and menacing emails to president Jacques Chirac. Angry with the way he was treated at a … Continue reading →

For Times correspondent Charles Bremner, the annual American film festival in Deauville was an excuse to indulge in nostalgia. For those of a certain generation, the boardwalk at the Normandy resort is forever a movie scene. Jean-Louis Trintignant has driven … Continue reading →