interior of Dragon Castle Chinese restaurant in Elephant & Castle A month ago, Jon and I went to see the highly-entertaining (popular, even) Pop Life exhibit at the Tate Modern, and afterwards, we somehow reasoned that because Elephant & Castle was so...

la Baie des Anges in Nice This is the fourth and final post on our trip to Provence two weeks ago. On our last trip to Nice in May 2007, we fell in love with socca, which is chickpea flour in its most evolved form (a crispy pancake), and we had a...

the port in Cassis, France Less than an hour’s drive south from Aix-en-Provence is the pretty port town of Cassis, which is *not* famous for creme de cassis but which *does* produce crisp, white Cassis wines. Cassis beach In addition to wandering...

Restaurant Pierre Reboul, Aix-en-Provence, France Jon and I just returned to London after a week in Provence. It was nice to get away, but the trip didn’t turn out the way I’d pictured. On the three days of sunshine we had, it was hard to relax...