Au Revoir New York City, Bonjour Paris!
NYC’s skyline taken from on Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Centre I have read it is every Parisians’ dream to live in New York City....
What makes Parisians tick
I’ve just read Olivier Magny’s ‘Stuff Parisians Like’, written by the young French sommelier and owner of the successful Ô Chateau wine...
Paris’ gay community post same-sex marriage law
What is the feeling among the gay community now? A typical cafe scene in Le Marais which enjoys a history as rich as a Boudin Noir...
Parisians adore May, the month of ‘les ponts’
May kicks off the start of the silly season of endless holidays in France. It’s called the month of ‘les ponts’ (French for bridges),...
Super-storm Sandy: New Yorkers feeling wind and water weary
NEW YORK, Oct 30 — The walls of our 40th-floor apartment on the Upper East have only just stopped creaking like an old oak tree in a...
US Presidential Debates: Obama declared the overall winner by viewers
The scores are in following Monday’s third, and last, presidential debate: President Barack Obama is declared the overall winner by two...
Obama vs Romney—Round One of the election debates (published in Malaysian Insider’s Side Views 8 Oct
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney rather annoyingly nailed it last Wednesday. His slick jabs left a stumped Barack Obama...
Croseo i Cymru: Welcome to Wales (published in Malaysian Insider, Travel section 28 July 2012)
The British government declared the Gower peninsula to be Britain’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty back in 1956. Wales, July...
There’s no place like New York City: Hari Raya, tornadoes, Madonna and Murray-mania
There’s no place like New York City: Hari Raya, tornadoes, Madonna and Murray-mania Posted on September 28, 2012 by pennedinparis Strong...
‘Regarding Warhol’ at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum
Andy Warhol, the man who made plain tasting Campbell’s soup famous and spoke of Coca-Cola as being a great equaliser, enjoyed by the bum...