A few more photographs from Paris. Just trying not to forget it.

Paris is an undeniably historic artistic city, and so while there, I captured some of this, through some old type to modern type. I’ve become a little bit of a type-geek.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; Paris is dirty and polluted, vulgar, unscrupulous, exploitative and offensive, but I still love it. It’s appealing in so many ways; the stunning architecture, the beautiful people, delicious food, boulangeries, the metro (it has rubber wheels!), fashion, art, bars, nightlife, history… I’ve been a few times [...]

Dinard is a small seaside town in Brittany with beaches and a long walk under the huge villas. Along by the beach is a large statue of Alfred Hitchcock. It is said that while he did spend much time here, he also based the house used in Psycho on one of the villas.

Pointe du Raz is an area of rocky terrain at the most western point of France — an amateur rock-climber’s dream. It offers a brilliantly dramatic view, and exciting hike across the jagged hostile landscape while watching the water crash on the rocks below. Oh the way back from the rock(s), we stopped at Baie [...]

Due to being pretty busy lately blogging has been a bit intermittent, and I’m still harping on about my France/Birmingham holiday way back in August. I have a few more posts that will be spread out over the next couple of weeks between a lot of other posts I’m also working on, and if I [...]

Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany; a dream for any tourist. Within the walls are restaurants, shops and tourists. We took a walk around the top of the walls, narrowly avoiding the rain, and the seagulls.

I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since I left for France, on a slightly hectic, but immensely fun ten day break, now time to get writing about it and get some of the photos up. First stop was La Route Du Rock — the very reason myself and Valérie-Anne decided to go to [...]