Category: Guest Blogs

Our home is perched overlooking the Dordogne River in the small hamlet of Vitrac Port in Southwest France.  Life and conversation are centered around the ...

The Musèe des Beaux-Arts Nancy is an art gallery of serenity and charm, situated amid the 18th century classical magnificence of the Place Stanislas. The ...

I jog occasionally. Friends call that an overstatement. More slog than jog, they say. Nevertheless, I like to slip on trainers, work up a sweat, ...

François Mitterrand was in trouble. Elected president two years earlier, in 1981, on the promise of a “French road to socialism,” things had not gone ...

At some time, you might have found yourself at the wrong end of some vigorous finger-pointing, along with an old saying being directed at you, ...

A perfect day in La belle France starts with a cafetière of strong coffee and a couple of those flaky buttery croissants that only the ...

Smug travelers say the same thing ahead of departure: “We’re all packed up and ready to go.” Frantic travelers – us – say this: “We leave in ...

Not only does Paris, city of light and romance, offer its visitors a wealth of paintings and sculptures in the city’s many museums, it also ...

“You are nutcases!”  “What an insane idea!” “Don’t do it!” Just some of the many comments we received from friends and family when we bought ...

I’m an American. But you probably guessed that. Was it the Birkenstocks and knee socks? I’m also, at varying times, an American in Paris. That ...