15 December 2021
Colmar, Transformed into a Christmas Card
Europe’s towns and cities famously light up and don holiday finery for Yuletide, but during the Christmas season in Colmar the displays reach another level...
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19 May 2021
A Beautiful Bamboo Forest in the South of France
Imagine for a moment you find yourself in an unfamiliar landscape, surrounded only by thick, massive bamboo stands stretching to the sky and allowing just a few rays of sunlight to reach the ground around you, the only sounds the bubbling of nearby brooks. You...
1 October 2020
Provence’s Verdon Gorge & its Dreamy Lake
Close your eyes and imagine a narrow but enormous body of turquoise water (caused by glacial melt containing powdered limestone and looking more like something you’d imagine on a tropical beach than in the hills of Europe) between precipitous limestone hills 700 metres (nearly 2,300...
15 September 2020
Back to the Future in the Speakeasies of Paris
How about an evening cocktailing in a secret bar you had to enter through the back door of a commercial laundry? Or listening to pop music in a spot you get to by walking through a tiny, low-key Mexican taco joint? Well, one of the hottest...
19 November 2019
Le Panier: Marseille’s Coolest Neighborhood
The good thing about taking a spur-of-the-moment trip to the Côte d'Azur is that, wherever you go, the fabulous year-round weather and the good life that’s found there will inspire and transform you almost on a cellular level. Sure, Cannes, Saint-Tropez and Nice are highly...
4 October 2019
Don’t Leave Paris without Visiting Montmartre
It is the quintessential Parisian bohemian neighborhood. And although it may not be the largest, it’s definitely interesting enough to warrant spending a day there on your next trip to Paris. We are talking, of course, about Montmartre, and these are some of the reasons...
3 May 2019
Wineries, Landscapes and History in Champagne-Ardennes
If you’d like to visit the most picturesque, monumental, and – why not say it? – “bubbly” version of France, Châlons-en-Champagne, capital of the famous Champagne-Ardennes region, is a destination that you can reach by direct flight thanks to the opening of the new route...
6 February 2019
Enjoy the Good Life in Nice
The city of Nice is one of those places that’ll blow your mind from the get-go. No matter how much you may have been told about its dreamy beaches or the relaxed vibe and the good life that you’ll find there, to actually experience it...
8 November 2018
The Machines of the island of Nantes: What a Trip!
When you put Jules Verne’s wildest dreams in a cocktail shaker with the genius of an artist like Leonardo da Vinci and the talent of two street artists like Pierre Orefice and François Delarozière, the trip to an incredible fantasy world is more than guaranteed. This...
6 April 2018
Le Centquatre, a Free Parisian Adventure
Paris and its fashionable neighborhoods. Paris and its… everything! We know that the life of a student can be trying at times, but it can also be full of freedom and adventure, and where better than in the capital of France? To give you just...
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