Shopping in France

Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Gogh's Latest Colors

"Auvers is of severe beauty and the countryside is quaint and quaint". So wrote Vincent in a letter to his brother Theo describing his impressions of Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village thirty...

Côte des Dunes - the Finest Sand Sculpture

Cote des Dunes (dune coast) is a magnificent DFDS ferry operating on the Calais to Dover route and is formerly the SeaFrance ferry Rodin (named after Francois Augusta Rene Rodin), the French...

5 Great Novels Set in Paris

Have you ever thought about researching your next trip to Paris by diving into a novel? Of revisiting a trip you have made through the eyes of an author (especially now when we can't travel)? Here...

Paris: Citadines Apart Hotel Opéra

Vacation is always an exciting time. People are counting the days until their trip will start, packing their stuff, studying maps, looking for useful information, buying some clothes and comfortable...

A 3 Day Trip to Le Mont-Saint-Michel

At the age of 19, I decided to embark on my own journey overseas, after having graduated from high school that same year. See, having lived in five different countries over my lifetime so far...

On the Beauty of Clermont-Ferrand’s Cathedral

I can think of just one another time a building held me in awe as this building does. When I was 18 and travelling through Italy, I saw the colosseum for the first time as I walked around the...