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…
Nothing Nicer Than Nice
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.
Pink and Blue Summer in the South of France
Nice and la Côte d’Azur: Ever since F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald landed in the south of France during the Roaring Twenties, the Côte d’Azur has been imbued with romantic visions of a glamorous life along the shores of the Mediterranean. Fitzgerald lived…
Holiday Inn Nice: Nice, France
Let’s be clear: this isn’t the Holiday Inn in which you stayed with your parents on that trip to Disney World when you were fourteen. Instead, you might think about the fact that Holiday Inn is owned by InterContinental Hotels Group, which runs the very…