As many people head back to school or the office, it's the turn of the septembrists to pack their bags. Nearly one in five holidaymakers now chooses to go away outside the school holidays, and the trend is continuing...
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Leaving Chinon along a winding road that seems to be trying to avoid the tumult of the Loire, you enter a land of vines and dreams. In the heart of Rabelais country, the Rivau rises up: a fortress...
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On Country: Photography from Australia is a landmark exhibition: it is the first regional showcase of Australian photography at the 56th Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles 2025, bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. Organised by Photo Australia (biennial...
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In Cannes, the address everyone's talking about is no longer hidden away in the alleys of Suquet or on the Croisette: it's now on the seventh floor of the Canopy by Hilton. The name? Marea. A suspended rooftop...
Continue readingThis collective work, with a preface by Bruno Podalydès, is part of the Gallimard Voyages - Slow travel collection. It offers a gentle, accessible approach to river travel, with no boating licence required, just a short course at the nautical base. The book explores...
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There are towns that history passes through like a cavalcade, sabre in hand; others that destiny caresses like the pages of a novel. Pau is one of them, and you have to imagine Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, future King of Sweden,...
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The Gili Islands are an archipelago of three Indonesian islands off the coast of Lombok, part of the Sunda Islands. Our choice was Gili Air and we're not sorry! We chose...
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Every summer in August, for one weekend, the town of Chinon plunges back into its medieval past. Troubadours, knights and craftsmen bring to life a Middle Ages that is both documented and dreamt of. More than just a form of entertainment, the Médiévales are a...
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A holy city, a secular city, the capital of an empire and then of a faith, Rome cannot be visited: it has to be read and deciphered. You walk through it as if you were turning the pages of a historical novel, sometimes written in the ink of Seneca, sometimes...
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