(Read the first letter from Jerome, our intrepid space explorer, here) August 21, 2513Space Station: Lyon Dearest little one, Well, here I am again. 270 days since my last dispatch. Still have no idea if you’re getting these things. The computer tells me the messages are being sent alright, she assures me. But you can [...]

One of the most moving anecdotes I’ve encountered on my research into the greatest love story ever told from a French highway, is the one about Cortazar’s cat – and the eery, beautiful connection it had with the couple at the end of their lives. Meet Flanelle – an opinionated and resentful creature, with tiger [...]

Dali on the shores of Marseille.

New view from the maids chambers. Paris with a toilette down the hall.

With all the seats facing out as if all of Paris was a theatre.

Entering Marseille, the sky turned grey and rumbled with thunder for the first time in seven days. Impeccable timing. I drove past ramshackle clay houses, with holes in their roofs and windows all broken. Toothless women, wearing bandanas on their bald heads, washed laundry a hundred stories up, hanging wet clothes for at least three [...]

700 kilometres later. Paris to Marseille. #cosmoroute 2013! #lovedrive #success