Vincent van Gogh

  • Oct012007
    Vincent's cafe terrace at night

    Vincent’s cafe terrace then and now

    This is what Vincent van Gogh’s cafe terrace at night looked like then and now:   It was high on…

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  • Sep302007

    Postcard from Arles: La Crau and Montmajour

    I wanted to go to the old ruined abbey at Montmajour, just 3kms from Arles...

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  • Sep282007

    Postcard from Arles: artist’s bedroom

    14 September 2007 The Yellow House, where Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles in 1888 was hit in an Allied…

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  • Sep272007
    St Remy

    Another postcard from St Remy de Provence

    I’d made my first visit to St Remy the week before to discover places where Vincent van Gogh painted while…

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  • Sep252007

    Postcard from Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in search of van Gogh

    6 September 2007 In the 119 years since Vincent van Gogh came to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, the village has transformed from a…

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  • Sep242007

    Postcard from Arles: the Road to Tarascon

    9 September 2007  The road to Tarascon heads north out of Arles from Place Lamartine, which in 1888 was the…

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  • Sep232007

    Postcard from Arles: an evening in Arles with van Gogh

    Vincent’s Cafe Terrace at Night today I wanted to eat at La Cafe La Nuit, on the Place du Forum…

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  • Sep222007

    Postcard from St Remy de Provence

    4 September 2007 In May 1889, Vincent van Gogh checked in at the St Paul de Mausole hospital in St…

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  • Sep212007

    Postcard from Arles: a walk in Vincent van Gogh’s footsteps

    2 September 2007 Vincent van Gogh arrived in Arles in the south of France in February 1888 to seek light,…

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  • Nov152005

    Postcard from Auvers-sur-Oise – the village where van Gogh died and is buried

    I first went to Auvers sur Oise...

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