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.
Ethnic Paris: Urban and Suburban Adventures in Indian Restaurants
For urban residents and travelers, a trip from the big city into the suburbs is often disorienting. The mere suggestion of going into the...
Elsewhere along the Loire: Val d’Aubois
You’d be the rare traveler, French or foreign, to have heard of the Val d’Aubois, the Aubois Valley, a largely bypassed portion of Loire...
Arbor Day and the Award-winning Travel Writer
On becoming a double award-winning travel writer on the occasion of Arbor Day, despite the demise of the silky dogwood.
Calvados, Where Rotting Apples Have a Good Name
An introduction to the alcoholic apple-based beverages cidre (hard cider) and calvados produced in Normandy.
A Night at the Victoria Palace Hotel
Victoria Palace Hotel, an admirably old-fashion 5-star in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, between the Montparnasse and Saint Germain Quarters.
Must-Tastes of the Normandy Landing Zone: 4 Norman Cheeses
It’s the greenery of inland Normandy that first grabs your attention when arriving from Paris—that and the hedgerows, the apple orchards, the traditional half-timbered homes and barns, the horses, and, most importantly for lovers of French soft cheeses, the cows.
Glass Memories: Quinn Jacobson at the Centre Iris
"Glass Memories," intense and haunting portraits by American photographer Quinn Jacobson, at Centre Iris... pour la photographie in Paris, spring 2010.
The March Equinox at Saint Sulpice Church
The March equinox, also known as the vernal or spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, occurred today. That’s the moment when the sun is...
If I were a traveler…
Gary Lee Kraut takes a photographic promenade in the Batignolles Quarter of Paris's 17th arrondissement.