Excuse My French! The Best Thing Since the Channel Tunnel…
Excuse My French! FLUENT FRENCH WITHOUT THE FAUX PAS has been written by Rachel Best and Jean-Christophe Van Waes. For English Rachel and French Jean-Christophe life in a bilingual relationship has caused many…
ROCK DANCERS
You are secured only by a 9 milimetres thick rope, hanging in the void on an overhanging cliff. Your hands start to sweat so the holds on the rock become slippery. Your strength…
Doors of Oman
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” Aldous Huxley Imagine driving a 4×4 in an oven, the seemingly interminable desert track ahead shimmering…
Breaking the ice
In summer ‘Trip in the Night’ is a waterfall. But by February ice has replaced the running water giving Stephane, a rough tough Swiss ice-climber, the notion to climb it together. This is…
Frozen landscapes
I have walked to the North Pole and climbed mountains all over the world, but nothing could prepare me for the biting cold and savage beauty of the landscape around Lake Geneva last…
Powder and Pizza!
The last couple of days it had snowed so much on the Italian side of Mont-Blanc that I couldn’t find where I had parked my car in Entrêves. According to my friend Pete…
