Aussies bring chateau a rosy glow

Don and Pixie Lowe ©Warren Nunn 2004 A group of Australians has made a bold assault on a chateau at Figeac about 70km from Cahors in France’s southwest. Two years after former Tasmanians Don and Pixie Lowe and some partners bought the rundown Chateaux De Saint...

Rural fare is totally fulfilling

Espedaillac workers’ restaurant ©Warren Nunn 2004 If you visit the French countryside, a not-to-be missed experience is eating at a traditional workers’ restaurant. It will cost about 12 Euro ($A24) but a more filling and challenging menu will be hard to find. The...

A wish engraved in his soul

Chris Souilijaert Version Français ©Warren Nunn 2016 Exotic birds – scores of them in glorious watercolors – stand as a measure of certainty and permanence in our fleeting, digital age. Despite that digital age, we are still mesmerised, enchanted and encouraged by the...

Les Nomades du Vent

Les Nomades du Vent Chris Souilijaert, artiste-illustrateur. Les oiseaux exotiques – dont nombre d’entre eux font l’objet d’une série de magnifiques aquarelles – représentent un monde réel, permanent à l’époque actuelle où priment le virtuel et l’éphémère. Malgré le...

The male scientist who spoke up for women more than 100 years ago

Charles Robert Bree ©Warren Nunn If the majority of modern scholars are to be believed, no 19th century man really spoke out in favour of the many and varied capacities that women possess, particularly in relation to their ability to match men in academia. We are told...

How dolphins handle prey

Warren Nunn Before a bottlenose dolphin eats an octopus, it shakes its prey and throws it into the air several times in what researchers describe as a tenderising process. If the dolphin doesn’t do this, it could be fatal because an octopus has been seen to attach to...