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APRIL 2022 Broadcast: Martina Nicolls




 

APRIL 2022

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TRAVEL

The features this month are Parisian streets, especially the narrow lanes that tourists generally don't have time to visit. There's always a surprise - the street itself, the old historic buildings, or even the rooftops.

VIEW FROM THE ROOFTOPS

The view from the top of an office building (7th floor) in Montparnasse in the 14th arrondissement (district) reveals the Eiffel Tower and the rooftops towards the river Seine. 

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RUE FEROU

​RUE FEROU MERCHANDISE ... AVAILABLE HERE​

RUE NOTRE-DAME DES-CHAMPS

RUE CHARLEMAGNE

​RUE CHARLEMAGNE MERCHANDISE ... AVAILABLE HERE​

ICONIC PARIS

EIFFEL TOWER FROM THE TROCADERO

​ICONIC PARIS MERCHANDISE ... AVAILABLE HERE​

FEAST OR FAMINE

My blog site Feast or Famine has posts on book reviews, art galleries and museums, my humanitarian work, articles, and photographs.

SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

My Website: See information and photos on animals ... This month's feature is the endangered bush dog - with partially webbed feet - from Central and South America. 

​BUSH DOG MERCHANDISE ... AVAILABLE HERE​

​OTHER MERCHANDISE from my PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO​

A FLOWER EXPECTED EVERYWHERE

My Website: See information and photos on flowers, gardens, floral art, poetry, books ... 

SIGN OF THE TIMES

Shop sign, Paris, March 2022, "Yummy and Guiltfree"

CREATIVITY AND CULTURE

Last month was a busy month for cultural events, from the Million and One Orchids exhibition in the Paris Botanical Garden to the Opera Bastille to see Cinderella. Art exhibitions included the France, Heritage and Exceptional Territories photo exhibition, the Magali Zambelli exhibition, Anna Jeretic's "The Wild Garden" painting and sculpture exhibition, the Land of Mexico art exhibition, and Philippe Katerine's installation at Le Bon Marche department store. 

THE PARIS RESIDENCES OF JAMES JOYCE

My latest book The Paris Residences of James Joyce (2020) has a website with information on the book and Opal Hush blogs that aim to connect the past to the present, and discover people and places in Paris.

Opal Hush is mentioned in James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It's a drink - a quarter of a glass of claret with lemonade from a soda siphon.

THE AUTHOR

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I am an author and an independent consultant (in peace and stabilisation, human rights, labour rights, labour market assessments, countering trafficking in persons, education, vocational education and training, health, and good governance). 

I have several websites and blog sites, such as my main webpage (http://www.martinanicolls.net), animal website (Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom), plant website (A Flower Expected Everywhere), Paris website (The Paris Residences of James Joyce), a general blog site (Feast or Famine), and a facebookpage.

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MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the author   of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce  (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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