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A World Away from Mickey Mouse | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Discover a different kind of Sleeping Beauty five miles from Disneyland, Paris: a medieval town guarded by moats, towers and drawbridges where life is lived at a gentler, provincial pace
Bon Appetit in Maigret's Paris | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
We’re not talking haute cuisine here, but we are talking authentic. I mean the sort of modest little place where Maigret might have gone for comfort during a particularly difficult case
Capital Island | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
It has always appealed to exiles of all kinds, the rich, the poor, the famous, the foreign, the talented, or just the plain eccentric: Racine, Corot, Gide, Proust, Cyril Connolly, Hemingway, President Pompidou...
Eating in French Railway Stations | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Paris’s stylish mainline railway stations bring a flavour of the regions to the French capital
Ecouen | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
The château gradually rises into view as you approach it from the woodland path and is suddenly revealed in all its stateliness as you emerge onto the vast flat lawn at the top
Ile Du Martin-Pecheur | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Guinguettes are so called because le petit blanc, the modest but lively white wine of the Paris region they used to serve, made people giguet (ready to dance a jig)
La Ferté-Milon | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
The prettiest and least visited part of the Canal de l’Ourcq, which enters Paris at Porte de la Villette, is its beginning at Port aux Perches in the Aisne département, 70 km north east of the capital
Paradise (or the Worst Kind of Hell) | Annabel Simms | Turkey, Aegean (Bodrum Peninsula), Bodrum
I have recently crewed on three yachts. Each offered, respectively, variations on Purgatorio, Paradiso and Inferno, hell, of course, being other people
Royaumont | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Royaumont is the largest and best-preserved Cistercian abbey in the Ile de France, retaining most of its thirteenth-century appearance including the cloisters, and flanked by the dramatic ruins of its church
Secrets of Notre Dame Island | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Over two aperitifs and a plate of olives, our bickering slowly died away as the provincial atmosphere of the place stole over us like a charm
Sunday by the Seine | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
You don't need a car or a fat bank balance to experience the pleasure of lunch by the river within an hour of Paris. But you do need a sense of adventure
The Islands of Créteil | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
The last place on earth where you would expect to find four small islands, linked by footbridges, containing only old houses and country villas hidden by trees and encircled by riverside walks and weeping willows
The Nature of the French | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
Decoding the mystery of French hiking symbols becomes a lesson in cultural priorities
The Perfect Yoga Teacher | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
I found some of the postures ridiculous and painful and the ‘Eastern’ touches laughable: the sudden outbursts of chanting in Sanskrit, candles, music, statues of the Buddha – you name it
Vive les Guinguettes! | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
On my return, I complimented the patron, still enthroned at his table, on his establishment. "Ici, c’est un petit coin du Paradis", came the reply. Pause, swelling of stomach. "Et moi, je m’appelle Dieu"
Why Birdies are not Like Others | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris
first got into bird-watching in France by stopping on a country road in England and following the RSPB signs welcoming the public to a site in the New Forest