Les Baux-deProvence is a stunningly beautiful, and much-visited, French village. It runs along a steep hillside in the south of France, not far from Arles. It has stunning views, both […]
Michael Wolf (1954 – 2019) captured the life of cities with great intensity. Whether it was his up-close work, such as the exhausted faces on the Tokyo metro, or the […]
The skull theme at OWS this week, reminded me about this striking mural that I spotted in Arles last summer. It is the work of a Parisian street artist, […]
The staircase at Peckham levels has a different colour scheme,e for each floor, and the green was hard to ignore! I thought I’d also present a selection of other green […]
Van Gogh lived in Arles between February 1888 and May 1889, creating some of his best known works. Several of the locations featured in his works have been identified and […]
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready […]
But Mr Kipper was soon found, and it was great to see polite thank you notes posted on the streets of Arles. However, it then turned out that the owner, […]