The young man on the right in this photo is my father at age 20, playing chess with his friend Gustav Lamb in a suburb of Paris in the year 1925. On the back of the photo he wrote (in German): Mein Freund Gustav und ich beim Schachspiel in BoisColombes Read More …
For a European town, 125 years is not very old, but Bois-Colombes is nonetheless celebrating its 125th birthday in 2021. Most of the nearby towns are much older. Colombes, to the north, has been inhabited since ancient Roman times, while Asnières, to the south, was first mentioned in a document Read More …
The train trip to Bois-Colombes takes all of nine minutes from Saint Lazare station in Paris on the J-line of the Transilien. There is only one stop along the way, at Asnières-sur-Seine, since the J-trains go through the station Pont Cardinet without stopping. The cost for a one-way ticket is Read More …
As I was walking from the Bois-Colombes railway station towards Villa Osouf, I came across this bookshop, Nouvelle & Cie at 69 rue Bourguignons. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, I hadn’t been in a French bookshop for nearly two years, so I went in — and discovered from a display Read More …