It’s a lively rosé, distinctly deep in taste, structured, bodied and a hallmark of the house of Guigal. The Côtes du Rhône Rosé from the Guigal family, who choose to make the […]
Wine of the Week: The Grandeur of Guigal
A Bountiful Bid for a Dazzling Dinosaur
Dampierre-en-Yvelines, France —The skeleton of a 150-million-year-old herbivore named Vulcain sold at auction for over $US 6 million in France last November 16th defying all estimates and joining the top ten club […]
A Dynamic Dinosaur Descends on Dampierre
Dampierre-en-Yvelines —His name is Vulcain and he is a gigantic Apatosaurus that roamed the face of the Earth in the Late Jurassic period some 160 million years ago. But today he, or […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Day Away Find
Dampierre-en-Yvelines — It is one of our favorite day trips in the Greater Paris region. The castle and gardens of the Domaine de Dampierre-en-Yvelines is re-opening on March 23rd and the grounds, […]
A Hautingly Beautiful Halloween
Dampierre-en-Yvelines — The castle and gardens of the Domaine de Dampierre-en-Yvelines, the Domain of the Dukes of Chevreuse, welcomed the kings and queens of France into its celebrated iconic walls for fabulous […]
In Castle Shopping at the Chateau of Fontainebleau
Some of the great places to shop in and around Paris for highly original objects are the boutiques of the Rmn-Grand Palais which are found in museums and monuments throughout France. The […]
Fontainebleau: A Family Affair
Fontainebleau, France — It is one of the fabulous castles of France, Fontainebleau just a 40-minute train ride from Paris. This castle was called home by all of the monarchs of France […]
A King’s King: Louis XV
Versailles, France — He was perhaps one of France’s most mercurial and mysterious monarchs. Louis XV made his own hot chocolate and marzipan in his private kitchen, was the first king to […]
Into the Imagination
Halloween has always provoked the imagination. A story of spooks, good and bad, witches and broomsticks, in short the fantastical, the symbolic. An alternative way of looking at things, at times surreal, […]
Cheverny, the Celestial
Cheverny, France —It is a classical vision of France that emerges as the visitor faces the great Loire Valley castle of Cheverny. It is a château that is alive and well and […]
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