Gary Lee Kraut
Gary Lee Kraut is the editor of France Revisited and an award-winning travel writer. As a long-time specialist on travel and touring in France, he has become the go-to contact for individual travelers and travel agents seeking personalized travel advice and customized tours in Paris and throughout France. See the About the Editor tab at the top of this page for his complete bio.
Biarritz Hotels: Hotel du Palais, Café de Paris, Windsor, Edouard VII, Mercure Plaza
Accompanying France Revisited's examination of surfing and museums in Biarritz, here are five notable hotels in the mid and upper price ranges, i.e. 3-,4- and 5-star hotels, including the history of the imperial residence that launched Biarritz as an international resort destination.
The Cranky Editor: Life Beyond the Facebook Quarter of Paris
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...
Paris on the Edge: Does the French Capital Need High-Rises and Towers to Stay...
One doesn't usually think of this low dense city having much in the way of a skyline, but Paris is now in the well advanced planning stages for the most significant changes to the city’s architectural profile in 40 years.
Sinfonietta Paris Chamber Orchestra & The Musical Vignette Contest Winner
Sinfonietta Paris Chamber Orchestra is an artistic organization and orchestra dedicated to showcasing and developing a new generation of orchestral musicians and soloists under the direction of Michael Boone.
Vignette: Paris Weather Report
There is no such thing as global warming. It’s a hoax, an invention of socialists looking for an excuse to have government regulate everything and of their scientist lackeys looking for subsidies for their spirit-hating research.
Paris’s Hôtel de Crillon Closes for Two-Year Renovation
Hôtel de Crillon, the palatial Paris hotel on Place de la Concorde, is closing on March 31, 2013, leaving little time for one last...
It’s Official: Springtime Comes to Paris
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...
France Revisited’s Agriculture Show – Name that Cheese Contest
On the occasion of Paris's International Agriculture Show, one of the major annual trade show/fair events in France, guess the cheese in the photo in this post and win an invitation or two to attend the show, which ends on March 3, 2013.
You know you’re back in Paris when…
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.