Xavier is a French name. There are not many names which start with an X. The letter X is used in the word Xray another word for radiography.

A poem about the Eurostar train.

"Even he who is pure of heart and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright".

When Ernest Hemingway started carrying arms, soon after landing in France in the summer of 1944, it was in contravention of the strict rules governing war correspondents…

To cities I have loved.

In August, 1944, Martha Gellhorn – before she met General James Gavin – had made her way back to Paris…

Short essay on my holidays.

A story for Duff’s competition.

Ernest Hemingway left his lover, Mary Welsh, asleep in bed and set out southward toward the River Seine…

The way I feel about Paris.