In case you’re feeling homesick, there are two summer blues festivals coming up in France! (OK, there’s also rockabilly and country and more…).
The Festival de Craponne sur Arzon (July 26-28) in southeastern France The Nuits du Blues (August 23-25) in Béthune in northern France. Excellent poster above. Featuring [...]
If you’d like to sleep inside a fairy tale, you might want to pay a visit to La Balade des Gnômes, a quiet bed and breakfast where you can live out your fairy tale dreams, including one inside the belly of a wooden bull.
Details and pictures of interiors at io9.
Designed by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel, it is one of the best examples of 18th-century royal architecture and its intact collection of furniture and decor is unrivalled, even by the palace of Versailles. But the state-owned building could be transformed into luxury boutiques, plush suites for billionaires or a hotel with swimming pool.
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If you’re in Paris between December 15th and February 9th, you’ll be able to go ice skating at a 200 square meter rink to be installed on the first level of the Eiffel Tower, 57 meters above Paris. Details: La patinoire de la Tour Eiffel.
HT @Myriam
London has beaten Paris to the number-one spot as Europe’s most tourist-friendly capital, according to a survey published this week. Hotel standards, inner-city transport, tourist information; London’s got it all. Well, that’s what the French say…
The new Paris Guestlist iPhone app uses built-in Google Maps and location technology, to find and display, on a satellite map of Paris, the best soirées at the most exclusive nightclubs, discos, lounges, art galleries, and other party venues in the city. Make your reservations through the app and go hang out [...]
At this converted monastery in Arles folding beds come down out of the wall, allowing guests to spend the night surrounded by the sculptures, paintings, furniture or other artworks on display.
See the rest: Europe’s 66 most unusual Places to Stay. Seen @pollyvous
The Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris has remade two of its rooms to look like life-size Barbie dream-houses.
via Boing Boing
24 Hours Paris showcases the city’s amazing variety of activities in a user-friendly format. Arranged hour by hour, from 5 am to midnight and back again, this unique guidebook gives you the best of Paris, beyond the Eiffel Tower. Feel like weaving a tapestry? How about sketching burlesque models? 24 Hours Paris peeks [...]
Chef Arnaud Lallement from l’Assiette Champenoise, a Michelin two-star restaurant just outside Reims, France, and Chef Scott Hunnel from award-winning Victoria & Albert’s at Walt Disney World Resort, are collaborating to create a French-inspired menu featuring superior products and seasonal ingredients sourced from around the world.
via Cruise Diva
The restaurant is called [...]
Other American habits also go against the French grain, said Wendy Lyn, a Florida-born and now Paris-based guide to all things culinary: sharing of entrees, asking for substitutions and ordering a salad or just one course in a prix fixe meal.
L’ecstase ! iPhone augmented reality app with monuments, events and more in Paris and beyond. La vidéo nous donne des frissons ! CultureClic
Little Passports sends monthly adventure packs to kids so they can travel the world: Link
Effective with tickets issued November 1, 2009, Air France will introduce a revised baggage policy for customers traveling in Economy Class between the US and Europe including Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia (see complete list below*). Passengers will be able to check one bag, weighing up to 50 pounds (23 kilos), free of charge. If passengers [...]
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