Feb. 25, 2011 – Last weekend I returned to Menton, the town on the French Riviera just over the border from Italy, on the occasion of its annual Lemon Festival. I’d last been to Menton 15 years ago when I’d written about it for my guidebook to France.
Feb. 14, 2011. With the winds of change blowing across North Africa and the Middle East it’s only natural to notice a slight breeze in France. The breeze can be seen in the form of [...]
Like any editor I’d rather focus on the editorial and journalistic side of a publication than the technical side. But when the decision was made last year to overhaul France Revisited in order to make technical and navigational improvements I set aside the editorial and journalistic side of my work to begin working with web designers on the new version of this web magazine that you are now seeing.
The way Jack LaLanne talked about health and fitness on TV reminds me the way that some farmers and organic wine producers in France talk about their products. I wonder: if Jack LaLanne’s parent had never emigrated from Oloron Sainte Marie in the Atlantic Pyrenees region of southwest France he might have become famous for producing organic goat cheese… and maybe lived longer.
This fall I spent a few days on Normandy’s Flowered Coast investigating hotels and restaurants between Deauville and Cabourg. I can spend only so much time along the coast examining luxury hotels and eating well before I crave outdoor exercise.
You’d think that Veterans Day would be an occasion to think about it our soldiers and policies in Iraq and in Afghanistan, but instead there’s been a lot of talk about Nazis this past week.
Moumoon, this writer’s cat, has died at age 11 after a courageous battle with kidney failure. He was known to readers of “France Revisited” through various texts in which he played a prominent or supporting role, including “Of Cats and Friends” and a review of Hotel Saint Paul Rive Gauche.
A Bloomberg news headline of October 2010, taken up by many online publications, states “Strikes at Eiffel Tower, Orsay Museum Leave Tourists Stranded.”
The first Saturday in October—tonight—is Nuit Blanche in Paris, an official all-nighter, when City Hall invites visitors and residents to stay up all night and take part in artsy, nightclubby sound and light shows throughout [...]
