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La Chapelle Saint Martin

April 15, 2026 Our Man On The Ground 0

La Chapelle Saint Martin is a stylish and cosy small hotel in the countryside near Limoges in France. It’s a hit with travelling gourmets thanks to culinary offerings prepared by the father-and-son team of Gilles […]

Château Les Carrasses

July 7, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 64

Full disclosure. Once you experience any triad of the Domaine & Demeure collective, you are a bit of a changed traveler. Three separate sleeping giants, reawakened. Each a private wine estate, restored and regaled in […]

Why People Who Rave About Paris Aren’t Exaggerating

February 25, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

Paris is perhaps the most famous city in the world, rivalling the likes of London and New York. But given the negative press about France in general, is it still somewhere worth visiting, and are […]

Château St Pierre de Serjac and Chateau Capitoul

November 27, 2024 Our Man On The Ground 64

To lavish in the liminal landscape balancing luxury and luminous countryside, the rustic, rural and the refined, ravishing details, it is an epochal exercise that borders on the mystical. Breathtaking escalates to new heights when […]

Les Marguerites

November 22, 2023 Our Man On The Ground 65

It is a pivotal, primordial paradox, feeling fifty at your fingertips. For me, it’s queued up for this July, and with it, a wealth of anticipation, hope, ambivalence, and aspiration. There is a reckoning of […]

A Bouzy Weekend

March 16, 2023 Our Man On The Ground 0

Perhaps the most appropriately named village in the world is Bouzy, near Epernay. It’s really just one long street with a collection of houses on either side, but every other of those houses seems to […]

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Armancette Hôtel, Chalets and Spa

September 11, 2020 Our Man On The Ground 0

I’m sitting in an outdoor hot tub on a still-warm early autumn evening in the French Alps. In front of me, up high, clouds drift across the Mont Blanc range and the slopes of Les […]

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Le Grand Café Fauchon Paris Reopens Terrace

June 10, 2020 Our Man On The Ground 0

As countries in Europe continue to ease their lockdowns and social distancing rules, such as in France, which is operating on a more sensible and workable one-metre rule, so cafés and restaurants are starting to […]

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The Nocturnal Glamour Of Villa Ephrussi De Rothschild

January 8, 2020 Our Man On The Ground 0

Some people believe the more one travels, the more it takes to dazzle and inspire. Reader: they’re wrong. I’ve been globetrotting professionally for more than two decades and continue to experience things that take my […]

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Castelnau Des Fieumarcon – Gascony’s Hidden Gem

December 26, 2019 Our Man On The Ground 0

Leafing through an eclectic mix of prints, maps and posters collected by Frederic Coustols, owner and conservator of the 12th and 13th century ‘Castelnau des Fieumarcon’, an ancient village in Lagarde, Gascony (France) gave a […]