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Award-winning travel writer. Franco-phoney. Professional flâneuse.

Wales/France/Belgium
Joined April 2009
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Lovely to get commissioned by @GuardianLabs to write two articles promoting Brittany for @BrittanyFerries theguardian.com/uncommon-hol… (the other one linked below)
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In Paris, "casseurs" are throwing Molotov cocktails at police.
🔴😳 ALERTE INFO - Des policiers sont EN FEU à Paris après avoir été visé par des cocktails molotov de la part des émeutiers. #31octobre
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Today is London Poppy Day, and volunteers will be at Paddington Station this morning. If you are travelling to London today please show your support. #PoppyAppeal #Remembrance @PoppyLegion
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My favourite kind of person on public transport @tfwrail
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The French army will be deployed this Saturday.
🪖 Le gouvernement promet un dispositif "massif" pour samedi prochain. Les militaires de Sentinelle seront mobilisés pour libérer des policiers et des gendarmes. Laurent Nunez demande aux préfets d'interdire les manifestations dont la sécurité ne peut être garantie. #JT20h
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At 9:15am today, Wales will fall silent to remember the Aberfan disaster. 60 years on, we will never forget them.
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On 18 October 1964, Lynn Davies won Olympic gold in the long jump. The first Welsh individual to become an Olympic athletics champion. He went on to hold Olympic, European, and Commonwealth titles all at once, a first in athletics history. #OlympicChampion #LynnDavies
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nunca voy a entender la relación entre protesta y cagarle la vida a un laburante
🇫🇷 | AHORA: Una tienda ha sido saqueada en Lyon. La vendedora tuvo que huir de su propio negocio.
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Impossible to look at this image without thinking of the Paris Commune in 1871 — insurrectional destruction, setting Paris city hall ablaze. The difference is that, today, protesters have no political ideology, they are thugs who loot and pillage, their goal is chaos.
🇫🇷 L'hôtel de ville de Limoges, édifice du 19e siècle incendié par des individus samedi en fin de manifestation, est "très lourdement endommagé" et "en grande partie perdu", ont estimé dans la soirée le maire de la commune et le préfet de Haute-Vienne.
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מפגינים השתלטו על גני הטווילרי הסמוכים ללובר ולארמון האליזה והם ממטירים ריהוט גינה על השוטרים בכיכר הקונקורד. מראות סוריאליסטיים לחלוטין:
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La FNAC de Marseille, immense, a été entièrement pillée. Il ne reste que les livres. C’est cocasse pour des jeunes qui voulaient des moyens d’étudier 😏
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In Grenoble, a masked protester hijacked a tourist train.
🇫🇷🚂 CE N’EST PAS DE L’IA, ÇA SE PASSE EN FRANCE ! 🤯 À Grenoble, un train touristique, complètement vide et conduit par un manifestant cagoulé, est passé devant les forces de l’ordre, STUPÉFAITES par la scène et DÉPASSÉES par les événements. Un peu plus loin, le conducteur a récupéré d’autres manifestants cagoulés.
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In Lyon, protesters have set ablaze an entire building.
🔴 Mouvement du 17 octobre : à Lyon, l'office de tourisme place Bellecour incendié Un office de tourisme, situé place Bellecour à Lyon, est en flammes ce samedi 17 octobre
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Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍
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Had a great day on @WeltchMedia #mediatraining with @mariclarecj and Chloe Seaton yesterday: weltchmedia.com/post/from-cr…
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My latest substack: The Musée Renoir isn’t the only attraction in Cagnes-sur-Mer victoriatrott.substack.com/p… #art #france #travel #museums
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If you’re heading to Paris for the Claude Monet exhibitions, visit Argenteuil to see his lovely former home victoriatrott.substack.com/p… #art #impressionism #france #travel
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New: The Guardian is creating 40 new jobs which will feature training on content creator skills across audio, video, photography, text and audience engagement The scheme will employ 40 journalists on 18-month fixed-term contracts with a salary of £48,000
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Extraordinary papal procession down the Champs-Élysées. Never witnessed fervour like this during Bastille Day parades. Looks like the French are having a Catholic revival.
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A madcap musical comedy about wartime espionage really shouldn't work, but it really does. My review of Operation Mincemeat, which opened at @New_Theatre last night: rhiwbina.info/post/operation… #theatre #operationmincemeat
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