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 [...]

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.

Paris, Oct. 27. Editorial on the upcoming American presidential election from the perspective of overseas voters.

This is not a restaurant review of Oth Sombath, a French-Thai restaurant on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris’s 8th arrondissement where I went as a favor to a French expert in gastronomy, unless he was doing me the favor of inviting me.

Dec. 2011. Some much appreciated recognition came knocking at my screen this month, one via from California, the other via Melbourne, Australia. First the California-based North American Travel Journalist Association informed me that I was their “featured [...]

Photolog of a daytrip to the Chateau de Chantilly, 25 minutes north of Paris by train, at the entrance to the Picardy region. It includes the Conde Museum of Henri d’Orleans (Duc d’Aumale), palatial stables, gardens (including by Le Notre) and park.

Aug. 5, 2011 [One year on, even grayer months defined the spring and summer of 2012 in Paris.] I think of it as The Summer That Wasn’t – L’Eté qui n’a pas été. Last month was [...]