THIS WEEKEND BEGAN a little early, with oysters and cava on Thursday afternoon in celebration of recent accomplishments and of summertime. There would also be lunch at a new Greek restaurant in the old town, cocktails at a place favoured by the locals (a very smart crowd it was) that’s always lively and hasn’t changed its quirky décor since 1957 ...
Maybe it’s just more Instagram fever or maybe it’s just my desire to visit more of this beautiful country, but lately I have a coup de coeur for the South of France.
Back when I was home in Brasov, December used to always be magical: long walks in the freezing snowy white forest, skating with friends and weekends at the cabin. I miss quite a bit, that Christmasy-Winter feeling.
This year, the streets around Paris have been getting festive since mid-November and I was pretty excited about it, but unfortunately Paris's famous Marché de Noël it won't be held this year.
Today in France is La Rentrée: the back-to-work & school routine after the summer and a month away in August. Earlier this morning, you could’ve seen quite a beautiful fashion show on the streets: men and women super stylé in their impeccable tailleur, children hurrying with their big cartables on the way to school.
THIS WEEKEND, P HAD THE perfect idea for a picnic at the beach. It is wonderfully fortunate to live in a city that sits on the coast, with the sea just three miles from our place.
WE FIRST CAME ACROSS The French Manoir on Julie Huh-Currie's Instagram page of the same name, @french_manoir, where she documents the restoration, renovation and decoration of her château in Pays de la Loire. Victoria magazine recently ran a feature on the place, telling the story of how Currie's first thoughts of purchasing an estate in France can to her from her home in Australia, a grueling twenty-two hour flight away. She had never ever even been to France at the point, nor could she speak the language. The feature describes Currie's story of crossing ten thousand miles from the capital city of Melbourne to the village of Chevaigné-du-Maine ...
There are few buildings that can rival a French château for sheer romance. I featured the Château la Durantie in the Dordogne region of South West France a few months back here and recently stumbled on some glorious new photographs by the wonderfully talented Katie Mitchell that I just had to share.
BEFORE WE DECIDED on moving to Valencia, Spain, we very seriously considered Lyon, France. Aside from hearing that there were something...
