Lara Dunston 
This Kotor old town walk consists of a self guided stroll around the Stari Grad or Old Town that we created on our last trip to this mini-Dubrovnik of elegant sandstone Venetian palaces, skinny lanes and sunny squares. One of the best things to do in Kotor is simply to wander the streets of this wonderfully preserved walled old … Read more
Nobody is going to come to Kotor to shop – what makes the town engaging is its history, architecture, and stunning setting – but there are some fun things to buy in the supermarket and local market, either to take home as souvenirs or simply to nibble on while you watch the sun set from … Read more
A night getting your kicks at the Moulin Rouge in Paris’ red-light district, Pigalle, is a must-do experience for many travellers visiting Paris if the nightly long lines on Boulevard Clichy are any indication. It certainly wasn’t our first trip to Paris – we’d been visiting Paris since way back in 1999 and wrote a … Read more
That couscous could be considered Paris’ quintessential dish by one of the city’s star chefs, that an American tourist told us what she most loved about Paris was its diversity, and that a ban of the full Islamic niqab or ‘burqa’ as the French call it looked set to be introduced, were all things that … Read more
The secret was out about the French wine tasting experience at Ô Chateau long ago. Despite its inclusion in a dubious list of “private Paris” experiences that “hover below the normal tourist radar”, according to The New York Times, Ô Chateau has long been in the guidebooks. At the time of writing, it was #5 experience … Read more