I spent five days as a guest of the Royal Westmoreland gated community in Barbados, attracted by the fact that I would be straying in one of the houses of the sports personalities that have made the resort their home. They were all allured by the award-winning golf course where I was coached in the […]
The church of Notre-Dame-des-Malades, Vichy
The clear highlight of my last visit to the Auvergne was the church of St-Blaise/Notre-Dame-des-Malades in Vichy. Vichy was for centuries France’s prime spa centre with sulphurous and mineral waters which are still prescribed – to be drunk or to be bathed in – for many maladies. Indeed, it was the town’s number of hotels […]
What do you call someone from..
We all know Londoner, Parisian and New Yorker. But what are the names for the citizens of other cities and states? Or, as we call them, demonyms? Easy to make up one by adding -er or -ian (or -ois in French) to the name. But I’ve been long interested in the more obscure appellations and […]