June is the month of the rose, a flower that strikes me as being quintessentially Parisian. Sure, the rose is internationally beloved, having a long history in China, Greece, Egypt, Rome, the Middle East, England … but it just seems so perfectly at home in Paris. Maybe it’s because my first-ever perfume was the olfactory […]
Stay & Play
Five Five-Star Hotel Terraces to Enjoy (Even if you’re not a Hotel Guest)
A week at the Ritz or the Crillon might be your ultimate Parisian goal, but if you can’t yet justify even an overnight stay at a five-star hotel, you can at least live the dream for a few hours by treating yourself to some time in their beautiful terrace bars or courtyards, some of which […]
A Cherry Lover’s Guide to Paris
Cherries have a long and juicy history in Paris, going right back to the Ancient Roman era. After conquering the future City of Light in 52BC, those high-living Romans imported fancy new architecture, customs, fashions and food. Markets began to sell luscious orchard fruits, with cherries — which the Romans had brought back from Asia […]
Five Ways to Experience 1920s Paris (in 2020s Paris)
Paris in the 1920s is such a glamorously evocative concept … You can’t help but think Ernest Hemingway and highballs, Josephine Baker and dances of wild abandon, Coco Chanel and beaded black party frocks, avant-garde artists and smouldering muses … And, most of all, fun — crazy-mad fun. Paris didn’t call these years les années […]