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.
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.
Travel and Travel Writing Beyond the Clichés, the Lecture
Award-winning travel writer and editor Gary Lee Kraut lecture on the subject of “Travel and Travel Writing Beyond the Clichés: In Search of the Perfect Travel Moment in France” at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library on Feb. 8, 2013.
“Gary’s Cocktail” at the Bar of the Hotel Lutetia, Paris
On April 14, 2014, the Hotel Lutetia will close for a three-year renovation. While awaiting its reopening, readers are invited to take a sip of this cocktail-laden travel tale and to meet Gilles Guyomarch, one of Paris's most experienced bartenders.
The Reawakening of the Hotel Lutetia: Living Large on the Left Bank
On April 14, 2014, the Hotel Lutetia will close for a three-year renovation. This article, written in early 2013, provides a "before" view of this historical hotel as its owners were seeking a new path to glory that eventually led to its closure for a major overhaul.