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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fter a week at the chateau, family and friends and peeling off one by one to return home. Juanita is the first. It’s been a week of exploration, conversation and great fun. I’m surprised that we gathered around the large table in the kitchen for dinner every night, never in the dining room, and we …