John Burke's a-Musings

Saturday 29 May 1999. Our day comes to an end after a somewhat exhausting day both in 1999 and several exhausting days in 2023 writing thes...

Saturday 29 May 1999. A smaller page than some of the others, but I felt that the one main symbol of Paris should have a page all to itself!...

A series of articles on a rather wet and cold visit to Paris in January (what were we thinking?) of 2008. No Disney characters were drowned...

31 January 2008. We arrived at the foot of the Eiffel Tower and joined a small queue that was zig-zagging along the railings towards the tic...

Thursday 31st January 2008 dawned cold and frosty. I sneaked a look out of the hotel window and shivered. We had decided to have a day i...