There are no secrets in the Paris restaurant scene. There are, however, understated addresses that are too earnest in their devotion to good food, fine wine and wise service to be hyped. Le Petit Verdot [...]
A Paris vignette about vision and politics, about elections in France and the United States, with a glimpse of London and Berlin, Democrats and Republicans and Socialists and Conservatives, an encounter with a beautiful woman and her baby, and curious conversations with an ophthalmologist and his receptionist.
Leaving Chatel-Guyon in the late afternoon I felt the call of the hill rather than the plain, in part because I’ve never associated Auvergne with the plain, in part because hills are more exotic to me than flatlands. But I also felt the call of a 5-star hotel, and Château La Canière, the only luxury hotel within many miles, stood out in the plain.
France Revisited meets with Jeanne Bernard, an American from Louisiana living in Paris, to discuss her documentary “New Wine From France,” an examination of the world of biodynamic wines, to learn how she got involved with biodynamics and filmmaking, and to discover her favorite shops and bars selling organic and biodynamic wines in Paris.
In Part III of the series “5 days in Auvergne,” the author visits the hot springs town of Chatel-Guyon on the edge of the Regional Nature Park of the Volcanoes and reports on the town’s evolution over the past 160 years, the medical uses of its mineral water, its architectural heritage, and its plans for future development.
Part II of an exploration of spa towns, hot springs, Romansque churches, cattle pastures, cheese farms and villages in Auvergne. A brief history of economic developments relative to hot springs, by way of Royat.
Part 1 of a 5-part investigation in Auvergne (in the center of France) with a focus on spa towns. Part 1 includes the train ride from Paris to Clermont-Ferrand, the region’s capital, some highlights in the city, and a dinner of hearty regional fare accompanied by uncommonly awful music.
Now here’s a photography festival that’s right up our alley: the 22nd annual Travel Photography Festival of Bordeaux, Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs. The festival, running April 1-29, 2012, reveals a diversity of approaches to travel and place by French photographers who collectively present far-flung “itineraries” from Bordeaux to Tokyo to Africa to South America.
American photographer Quinn Jacobson, a specialist in early photographic techniques, has returned to Paris this spring with “The American West Portraits,” a showing of recent works at the gallery Centre Iris pour la photographie until June 19, 2012. The portraits in this show were created with the wet plate collodion process, a photographic technique developed in the 1850s.
