France
Le Vieux Logis, Trémolat
Le Vieux Logis is a luxury boutique hotel with a Michelin-starred restaurant. It is mere paces from the heart of a charming village in the Perigord region of France. The oldest part of the property […]
France
France
La Chapelle Saint Martin
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 […]
France
Château Les Carrasses
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 […]
Europe
Why People Who Rave About Paris Aren’t Exaggerating
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 […]
France
Château St Pierre de Serjac and Chateau Capitoul
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 […]
France
Les Marguerites
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 […]
France
A Bouzy Weekend
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 […]
France
Armancette Hôtel, Chalets and Spa
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 […]
France
Le Grand Café Fauchon Paris Reopens Terrace
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 […]
France
The Nocturnal Glamour Of Villa Ephrussi De Rothschild
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 […]