Bartlett Lodge -Perfect Canadian Cottage Experience
Having spent much of my adolescence in Canada, I’m particularly attached to the Canadian ritual of “going to the cottage”, …
Tag Archives: Travel
Secrets of France – Contribution
I was recently asked to contribute to the Secrets of France newsletter featuring French bloggers favorite French places. This edition was …
Provence – loved it!
I recently wrote a post about the book Provence 1970, a book that I adored and through which I spent my reading …
Festival d’Avignon (Theater…everywhere)
I’d heard about the Festival d’Avignon for years – three weeks of theater in the south of France. Theater in …
La fête de la Musique 2016
In the early 1980s, the French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, created La fête de la Musique. Since that first …
Spring cuisine – ideas from a chef
The chef is not, unsurprisingly, me… We recently spent a week with a chef at the Ile de Ré. This chef, …
A Book for a Rose?
Or is it Sant Jordi… Last weekend I was down in Perpignan, way down in the south-west of France …
Rue Caulaincourt Brocante
Twice a year, one of the prettiest streets in Paris – winding its way toward Montmartre – hosts an enormous …
A Morning at a Paris Antique Market
UPDATE: A reader wrote to me recently asking for that list I promised – far too long ago now – …
A Spanish Tradition – A Rave in France
Do you know that Paella is regarded as the Spanish national dish? And do you know how good it is? I …
