Kurt of Gerolstein

* Who can resist them? Lucie is now two months old and D'Arcy more than three weeks...

* What a day. Up at the crack of dawn, and into Christchurch for a session of what’s politely called dentistry – slashing, scraping, stitchi...

* Saturday was quite a day in the Gerolsteiner horse world. For, today, our two little newcomers met their ‘fathers’. I don’t mean their bio...

* DAZIE..... is a boy! Is that my UNCLE? Doing elevation at less than one day old? *

* Four weeks already. Four weeks of New Zealand spring. An irrational mixture of cold, very cold, wet and occasionally fine and just very oc...

(But mostly me) by Lucy de Gerolstein (aged nearly one month already) This is me when I was really young. Just two weeks old. Before I becam...

* I know its been some time since Tahiti. Suffice it that the Boularibank made it safely to port at the time forseen, that the taxi fare fro...

My old memories of Tahiti may not disappear, but after today I have a new one or two to go alongside them. For our ‘Safari’ – a tour utterly...

* So here I am, or rather ‘was’ (as I’m writing as the voyage nears its end), again. The Boularibank is a sister ship to the Tikei and the G...

Of course, in the end, it wasn’t three days at all it was five. But there was good news as well as bad. La Vague isn’t entirely gone: it has...

My voyage to the north has been so full of events and discoveries that I could fill a blog twice daily with my tales. But I won’t. I’ll trus...

I’m in Lille. Yes, you heard right: Lille. Since Jean-Baptiste had a few days with no work – the whole of working France comes to a stop ro...

* Paris in summer .. (tra la la) .. Is hot. That’s my excuse, anyway, for no blog for ten days. And even now I’m going to be stickily short,...

* Well, I’d never heard of it a month ago, and most of my French friends hadn’t either, except Pierre from the Insitut Français who was able...

Today is a big day for me. I have a horse of my very own going to the races... for the first time since dear old Cliffie (Lite Gasp) ran his...

Well, we’ve been to the races again – to Graignes, out towards the Normandy coastline, and came home with a fine second placing – but this w...