Preparing France Revisited’s Cranky Issue has made me one happy editor. My call for cantankerous texts from residents and travelers willing to demonstrate that all is not beautiful, tasty, sunny and cheerful in the City [...]

OMG! They were right all along! There is no such thing as global warming. It’s a lie, an invention of socialists looking for an excuse to have government regulate everything and of their scientist lackeys [...]

If you missed the latest France Revisited Facebook quiz—no prize this time, just glory, but isn’t that plenty already?—the question was: If it were to be sunny in Paris on March 20, which it won’t [...]

You know you’re back in Paris when… Here are 10 signs that I’m back in Paris after 6 weeks in the U.S.

To France Revisited readers in New York City. On Feb. 8 I’ll be giving a lecture entitled “Travel and Travel Writing Beyond the Clichés: In Search of the Perfect Travel Moment in France” at the [...]

France Revisited wishes readers around the world a happy new year and une très bonne année 2013 with the image below of the Smiling Angel of Reims. Wishing you healthy, happy travels throughout the year [...]

I don’t often show pictures of myself with celebrities, artists, winegrowers, chefs, politicians or other living icons that I meet in the course of my work, but that’s the best way to introduce the beautiful local Diva that I met the other day while in Orange, in the Vaucluse area of Provence.

In November 2012 I was elected to the administrative board of the Association des journalistes du patrimoine (AJP), France’s Heritage Journalists Association, the first foreign journalist to join the board in the association’s 10 years of existence. Exploring patrimoine/heritage in France.