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.
Happy New Year – Bonne Année
France Revisited wishes readers around the world a happy new year and une très bonne année 2013. May we all be as amused and bemused as the Smiling Angel of Reims Cathedral.
Paris Award Ceremonies Honor French Excellence, Heritage and Savoir-Faire (Part 1 of 2)
Part 1 of this two-part series about Excellence Française, an awards enterprise created by Maurice Tasler, including information about this years recipients.
Paris Award Ceremonies Honor French Excellence, Heritage and Savoir-Faire (Part 2 of 2)
Awards and award ceremonies tell a lot about a country, if not always about the nation that it is then at least about the nation that the award-givers want it to be. Part 2 of this two-part series concerns Pelerin Magazine’s Un Patrimoine pour demain (A Heritage for Tomorrow) and Cigale TV’s Trésors vivants de l’artisant (Living Treasures of Craftsmanship).
Black Diva and the Roman Theater of Orange
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.
Miss Mimosa and the Big Wheel Over Paris
An encounter with Phileas Fogg in Paris on his way the winter festivities on the Riviera: Mandelieu's Mimosa Festival, Nice's Carnaval, Menton's Lemon Festival.
“Patrimoine,” French Heritage and Travel in France
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.
Stephane Jaspert’s Cobblestone Art: From the Streets of Paris to a Garret in Montmartre
Stephane Jaspert picks the cobblestone up from his desk and says, “Tourists often see Paris as a light and romantic city, but it’s a tough city, hard as rock.” We are high above the cobbled streets of Montmartre in Mr. Jaspert’s garret.
Drome Provencale: Eat Like a Sixth Grader, Drink Like a Wine Enthusiast, Part 1...
Part 1: In which the author has lunch at a middle school cafeteria in the Provencal town of Nyons, realizes that he can’t remember anything from sixth grade and goes to talk to the principal.
Drome Provencale: Eat Like a Sixth Grader, Drink Like a Wine Enthusiast, Part 2...
In which the author takes a tasting class at Wine University (Université du Vin) in the medieval castle of Suze-la-Rousse, reflects on whether or not he's a wine enthusiast, and wonders if it's true that "there is no pleasure without knowledge." (This 3-part article received the 2013 GOLD AWARD for best culinary travel article written for the internet, awarded by the North American Travel Journalists Association.)