Art and Abart

Paris! What a pleasure to be in a city that looks as if it is loved. Flat footpaths that are easy to walk on and aesthetically designed buil...

In a Paris Cafe The landscape sketches and paintings done in August September as I train-tripped my way through Europe are now online. ...

I discovered buses belatedly in Paris and became in instant fan. You use the same tickets as the Metro but you stay above ground, don'...

Art galleries today, like concert halls, are full of people taking pictures. Concert halls  try to limit their use but art galleries seem to...

The Bastille - I aimed my camera, pressed the button and got a picture of red. It was a passing bus, but quite appropriate for the Basti...

Someone told me recently they had been to Paris 30 years ago and had  decided then that they never wanted to return. Looking back down t...

Notre Dame, Paris We think we are pretty smart building skyscrapers nowadays and the higher they are the more we congratulate ourselves ...

Orchestras and choir at Notre Dame Instead of listening to the 2014 Australian budget being read out by a treasurer who smokes big fat...