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The French may mock the Brits for a willingness to stand in a queue, but hello! - you could spend an entire weekend break in Paris standing in line - and that’s without any intention of joining that snake outside the Louvre to view the Mona Lisa.

A classic hot chocolate and [...]

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It is said that fashion’s biggest magazine brands, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, can only be in the same room when there is a fashion catwalk between them. Yet both sides sit happily at Le Square Trousseau, a gorgeous Parisian brasserie near Bastille where the food is as good as the Belle [...]

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While the majority of air travellers tend to look rather ghastly in transit, you can stand out from the crowd in Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton’s pastel pale travel chic for spring, accessorized, of course by the smartest carry on handbags. At the Spring/Summer 2012 show, models travelled no further than [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt
The flat we chose to stay in was owned by Katie in Dublin and she said Danny, once of
Dublin too, now resident in the South of France, would meet us to give us the keys. What she didn’t mention was that Danny would also throw in his own, honest, nicely expletive-peppered walking [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt
It isn’t because Adrian Brody and a Hollywood crowd are at the next table. What impresses me most about the Chateau de la Chevre d’Or, high up a mountain with a view down to the French Riviera, is that it, (or at least, the medieval castle it used to be) was a [...]

These hellish little poupées, writhing in purgatory on their cardboard mounts or thrown into wicker caskets, are not some macabre instillation by Jake and Dinos Chapman but instead just toys for sale at the Saturday market at sun-kissed and heavenly Antibes, on the French Riviera.

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There are few hybrid car services in Paris but there’s one that has the Toyota Prius and sensational service. When I’m in Paris I choose Ecovisit Paris.
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Image Courtesy of The Hôtel des Sers
Paris is famous for it’s great hotels, small and large. A recent addition to the landscape, The Hôtel des Sers is in a restored mansion in a quiet street perfectly situated near the Avenue Montaigne. It’s that rare beast – a boutique hotel with perfect interior, wonderful service and [...]

La Column d’Or has long been the restaurant, (not to mention boutique accommodation) that friends had been to and I had dreamt about - thankfully a recent trip to Cannes corrected this. Just a short drive from Cannes, La Column d’Or is perched up on the hillside of Saint-Paul de Vence. Eating [...]