Catherine Broughton is a published author, blogger, poet and artist.
Catherine is English but was born in South Africa . Her father was a doctor of tropical disease and his work took the family all over the world. They spent many exciting years in various parts of Africa, the South Pacific, Switzerland and, later, Spain, Belize and France. This life of travel is reflected in her novels.
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Snippets of French history: Marie Antoinette
In some ways Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) has gone down in history as a frivolous and spoilt woman who was executed because she allowed the people of France to die of starvation while she lived in great luxury.
This is not the case at all. Read more
Snippets of French history: hot air balloons.
There is a poster on the wall in one of the cottages here at Rochebonne that says something about the French being the first to fly, and yesterday a guest commented “but it was the Wright brothers!”
Indeed it was. The American Wright brothers were the first to fly (1909), they invented the aeroplane and made the Great Breakthrough. Read more
Oh Baby Excursions, Belize.
OUR GUEST BLOG TODAY COMES FROM KIM IN BELIZE
Oh Baby Excursions Ltd is the only recognized Real Estate Tour Company in Belize. We have our Tour Operators License from Belize Tourism Board. Oh Baby Excursions is for all the people that have Belize on thier radar. Read more
Snippets of French history: Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Chanel (1883-1971) got her nickname of Coco when performing in a bar soon after she left the orphanage where she grew up.
She was the illigitimate and fourth child of a Parisian couple who married when Coco was about a year old. Read more