Tag: France
Le Havre is a French City by the sea in the region of Normandy. It is known for its large port that connects Europe to the other side of …
Bordeaux is a beautiful city in western France not too far from the ocean. With a history that goes back 3,000 years and some of the best wine production …
“It isn’t what it used to be,” my professor told me upon learning I’d be visiting Nantes for the first time. To be fair, he had just been reminiscing …
Even under grey skies, Strasbourg’s colors pop: ocre and salmon pink turned bright under the rain. The Rhine splits up into rushing canals, turning into deep shade of seaweed …
When people think of the Champagne region in France, often it’s the big names and wineries that pop into one’s mind. It conjures up images of glamour and elegance. …
Deep in a forest in the Aube department in France, people still search for the mythical treasure attributed to the Knights Templar. When the local theme park, Nigloland, stipulates …
Crossing borders goes along with traveling. In many ways crossing borders goes along with playing music, too. In both cases, there’s an art to keeping centered while taking on …
From the brasseries and bistros that inspired Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast to the practice rooms in the Palais Garnier immortalised by Degas’s pastel coloured ballerinas, there is no city …
“I don’t get here often enough. That’s the problem.” So says Gil in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris after that painfully beautiful opening scene, a love letter in video …
(Updated September 2021.) A good friend of mine is about to make her first trip to Paris, and she asked for ideas about what to see and do. Here …
Wherever you might experience it, the season of winter holds contrast, from light to dark, from celebration to contemplation, from appreciation of frosty night to longing for spring afternoons, …
“Europe is in my blood and Texas is in my soul,” says singer and songwriter Christine Albert. Albert grew up with a Parisian grandmother, and family members all around …