he three-week cruise from Dubai through the Suez Canal and across the Med to Monte Carlo is already a distant memory! I’m staying at the Hotel Belles-Rives in Juan-Les Pins with sweeping sea views from what was once the Art Deco mansion of F Scott Fitzgerald, (the American novelist and writer of The Great Gatsby’). …
ans! Yes, forty-five years since my first visit to Paris, although there’s been many visits here since in my business life. But it is forty-five years since I travelled on Le Métro in Paris – more a daunting experience than an adventure these days, especially when I have a date and I’m running …
antistique! There’s not a breeze on this perfect afternoon around 8pm – just the birds to break the still of the field. That is, until Franck, our pilot for the balloon ride, fires up the gas burners that are attached to the basket that will carry twelve of us. He then gives us a …
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imply can’t believe I’m digging into the bottom of my suitcase for a looking for a scarf while Edmundo’s proclaiming he could have travelled with a carry-on. This is the middle of June and it is only sixteen degrees . . . cold and wet in the middle of the French countryside. And the weather …