Strasbourg Philharmonic sports concert
Yesterday was the first time, in the six years that I have been living around the corner from Strasbourg’s Palais de la Musique, that I had the opportunity to attend a performance by the Strasbourg...
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Ugly show
Thought I should do a quick plug for the show that is premièring at the Pré0 in Oberhausbergen this Friday. Entitled “Le Moche” (The Ugly One) it is the very first production by the recently formed...
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Cirque Arlette Gruss
While their demise continues almost everywhere else in the western world Circuses still live on in France. Nowhere could this be more evident than in Strasbourg this week under the Big Top (“The...
View ArticleCastres vs Toulouse
Thought it worth noting, if anyone ever doubted the financial inequality between these two sides battling it out for a place in the Top14 final last night, that the sponsors logos said it all: Toulouse...
View ArticleA few useful links
Thought I should share a few resources with you. The new US Consulate General to Strasbourg now has a blog which he (or his man) updates regularly: http://cyberambassadorsblog.wordpress.com AmCham, The...
View Article1and1.fr
I’ve been playing paperwork tennis with 1and1 France for about a year now. Although 1and1 is a German firm with an international brand and presence around the globe – this doesn’t stop the...
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Foire Saint Jean
When I was a wee lad living in the small provincial backwater of Frome, Somerset, the coming of the funfair was a major event on the Town’s annual calendar. The usual suspects of Waltzer,...
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Join the club
This weekend you should make some time to visit the Parc de la Citadelle in the Esplanade quartier of Strasbourg. For it is here that you will find a tent village with representatives from the biggest...
View ArticleSunday chemist
Just had to find an emergency pharmacy on a Sunday … turns out this is the site to bookmark: http://www.3237.fr
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Masterisation
Masterisation, although sounding remarkably similar to another noun, has nothing to do with self-abuse. It is a word recently coined in France to refer to changes in the Nation’s approach to...
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Freelance in France
My relative silence here has been partly due to a little project that has finally come to fruition after some years of struggle and tears… Freelance in France 2015 is the title of the book and, as the...
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