These posts will be about the tours we do.
The best Paris walks are all about aimlessly sauntering the grand boulevards and exploring the elegant arcades. Amble about for a few hours and you’ll understand how Paris gave birth to the flâneur, a stroller fascinated with street life, for whom sauntering the city was the best way to experience it. We do just that … Read more
Spending two weeks in one of the world’s great gastronomic capitals and not doing a Paris cooking class would have been like going to Siem Reap and not clambering around Angkor Wat. Doing a French cooking course was a given, but what kind was the question. We decided upon a macaron making class in our … Read more
An amble around arty Montmartre in Paris will take you through settings that have been depicted in countless paintings by artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Utrillo, and starred in movies such as Moulin-Rouge and Amélie, but still it Montmartre must be one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented of Paris’ neighbourhoods. Too easily dismissed as … Read more
A Paris food tour of the fashionable Haute Marais neighbourhood, where artisanal food producers are creating innovative products, gives us a taste of ‘the Bobo palate’, the French capital’s ‘bourgeois-bohemians’, and the gourmet foods and specialty food shops currently on trend in the French capital. We’ve long believed that exploring the food of a destination … Read more
In Céret the hills are alive with Catalan culture and cherry blossoms. For visitors to this part of the French Pyrénées, walking is one of the most popular things to do, especially here in Céret. So we asked local guide de pays Christian Piquemal to give us a taste of what makes walking in Céret … Read more