I would walk into the village for breakfast and drink my morning coffee on a restaurant terrace with views of the Bay of St. Tropez. I spent days hiking through olive groves or sunning myself at the beach at Ramatuelle. At night, it was dinner alfresco in the gathering dark. It was magic.
France’s 'cultural exception' is safe. French students sit the baccalauréat - signaling the arrival of France’s long summer vacation. And finally, tourists are to receive a warmer welcome in Paris and the city’s outskirts.
Kate Kemp-Griffin, the French lingerie expert shares her lingerie designer secrets and favourite places in and around Paris
Lingerie reveals a great deal about our personality, yet it doesn’t always reflect how we want to see ourselves. It’s hard for women to reconcile the difference – even in English! Add the word ‘French’ and the whole thing becomes a tangled mess of silk and lace lost in translation.
Every city on earth is made for walking, but some are better for it than others. On the top of my list of places to explore à pied is Paris, of course. This is especially true when I walk “in the sky,” almost above the rooftops, along the re-purposed elevated railway tracks by the Promenade Plantée.
Audrey Hepburn is synonymous with everything we love about Paris – enchanted, graceful, regal and sophisticated. So it comes as no surprise that Audrey herself loved Paris, and leapt at any opportunity to visit her favourite places in the French capital.
I wanted to find out how a girl from Alaska found herself designing couture corsets in Paris, and Loanna’s story is one of absolute determination and creativity. She told me that when she was twelve years old, she saw a program on haute couture with Karl Lagerfeld.
Join Virginia Jones on her musically journey around Paris
David Downie is an American author based in Paris. To be released in April this year, his new book 'Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptical Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James' is both an adventure tale on the century-old pilgrimage road and a more personal introspection into his own journey.
The rue Cler, in the 7th arrondissement, is a rue piétonne, a cobble-stoned pedestrian walkway. Here, you can amble leisurely looking into shop windows.
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