Climbing up to Kotor’s Castle Of San Giovanni in Montenegro is best attempted after strolling Kotor’s Stari Grad, which should provide enough of a warm up for a walk up to Tvrđave Kotora or the Castle of St John. Expect stupendous vistas of the fjord and a fabulous birds-eye-view of the Old Town of Kotor, … Read more
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
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 wasn’t on our to-do list on our first holiday to Paris – we’d been visiting Paris since way back in … Read more
That couscous could be considered Paris’ quintessential dish by one of the French capital’s superstar Michelin-starred chefs, that an American tourist told us what she most loved about Paris was the city’s cultural diversity, and that a French government ban of the full Islamic niqab or ‘burqa’ as the French call it looked set to … 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