Ideally situated at the edge of the Marais on the tree-lined Boulevard Richard Lenoir, the Marais Bastille is within easy walking distance of the Bastille Opera House and the Picasso Museum. A three-star establishment with four-star service and hospitality, this … Read More
As Hemingway wrote, “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” … Read More
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 … Read More
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 a different continent … Read More
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 … Read More
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. … Read More
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. … Read More
Ever since F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald landed in the south of France during the Roaring Twenties, the Cote d’Azur has been imbued with romantic visions of a glamorous life along the shores of the Mediterranean. … Read More
