In Search of Lost History: Return to Montpellier, France
Few things are as delicious as a ripe tomato eaten like an apple while lost on a bicycle on the way to the Mediterranean. Nearly thirty years before, we had traversed this road to the beach almost every day of the summer. Our skin as toasted as toffee,…
Crowne Plaza Montpellier Corum: Montpellier, France
A brand-new, four-star property perfectly located alongside Montpellier’s second opera house, Opéra Berlioz, the Crowne Plaza is a sleek addition to the city’s collection of noteworthy modern architecture. Each of the hotel’s four floors is dedicated to…
Husser, Brasserie le Corum: Montpellier, France
Montpellier’s cultural spinal column commences with the Opéra Comédie on the Place de la Comédie and then traverses along the Esplanade (home to Musée Fabre), all the way to the Corum, the 1988 pink marble building where the second of Montpellier’s two…
Montpellier, France Redux
As Thomas Wolfe knew, it's sometimes difficult to return to a place that you once called home - and way back in the Eighties, Montpellier had been our home.
Ristorante Pizzeria Sicilia: Montpellier, France
For more than thirty years, at the base of rue Pila St. Gely, Ristorante Pizzeria Sicilia has been serving what might well be the best Sicilian pizza in the South of France. Located at the base of rue Pila St. Gely, a medieval street with a number of…