Keith Austin: When the world is your lobster

Stories from a former Travel Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Fete de la Musique, wine and cassoulet ...

FRANCE | Tuesday, 23 Jun 2009 | Views [204]

* My quest to make cassoulet here in Paris has to be deemed a failure. While expat Australian author John Baxter, who has lived here for 20 years, might have been a bit of a purist for insisting that cassoulet had to be cooked in a wood-fired oven he ... Read more >

Tags: paris, fete de la musique, marais, hotel de ville, bongo drums, wine, bastille, market, cassoulet, lozere


Pet hates....

FRANCE | Friday, 10 Apr 2009 | Views [215] | Comments [1]

So here we are, on a fast train out of Paris’s Gare de Lyon, and the fun has already started. The blonde woman across the aisle has a little Yorkshire terrier in her handbag. Next to that, in a sort of pseudo sports bag with mesh sides, she has a fluffy ... Read more >

Tags: pets, lozere, paris, clermont-ferrand, hotel de ville, venice


In a bit of a stew...

FRANCE | Thursday, 2 Apr 2009 | Views [155] | Comments [1]

Cassoulet – a sort of southern French bean stew with sausages and duck - is my next culinary task. Many years ago Popsi Bubblehead’s sister, who lives in the Lozere region of southern France, gave me a large vacuum-sealed jar of the stuff and I have ... Read more >

Tags: cassoulet, john baxter, spinach, food, wolves, lozere, france, au bon st. porcain, arrondissement



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