The French Open: Watching Top Tennis in Paris
The French Open: how to enjoy watching pro tennis in Paris by visiting Roland-Garros stadium and the new Jean Bouin Practice Center and outside courts.
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The French Open: how to enjoy watching pro tennis in Paris by visiting Roland-Garros stadium and the new Jean Bouin Practice Center and outside courts.
Leeds England. The 2014 Tour de France departs from this booming city in Northern England.
Spécialitiés Niçoises: Where France Meets Italy, deliciousness occurs By Derek Noll This area where France meets Italy is unique in many ways, perhaps most notably in the regional specialties that dominate the menus. Sure, everyone has heard of the Salade Niçoise, and it can be found on every menu here…
Pas de Calais: A Part of France Most Americans Haven’t Seen By Max Hartshorne GoNOMAD Editor I was pedaling as fast as I could over a dirt road leading toward the English Channel. I stopped to take a break with my guide, Jerome Casagrande, who lives in the small town…
Aix-en-Provence – A Beautiful City of Markets & Fountains By Gena Reisner We’re sitting in the outdoor cafe at Chez Grandmere, overlooking one of the many fountains of Aix-en-Provence, eating another delicious meal from Grandma’s kitchen. Here at the intersection of two winding streets, a musician sets up his portable…
Drinking in Wide Open Champagne By Max Hartshorne Champagne was named after the hills south of Rome, Compania by the Romans. It’s an ancient stomping ground for Romans and English and Spanish conquerors. Today it’s a wonderfully wide open part of the north of France that lets you breath easy,…
Paris Without the Romance, But with All the Culture By Connie Maria Westergaard Paris hardly needs an introduction. It has always been literally the heart of Europe and a romantic getaway for millions of people every year, but stripped of romance, what does the French capital have to offer a…
Paris I Love You but You’re Bringing me down: A memoir by Rosecrans Baldwin illustrating life in Paris during the modern age.
Rocamadour, at an angle. photos by David Rich. France with Ze French Chef By David Rich Contrary to what your mom told you, always talk to strangers. Then like me you may meet a personal tour guide for France, a grumpy Brit for traveling Sudan and Ethiopia, a Kyrgyz German…
Paris to the Pyrenees:A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James. An excerpt from David Downie’s book about a journey across rural France.
My One-Night Stand With Shakespeare By Jennifer Coburn Craving a little adventure in Paris, I wasn’t surprised to find myself engaged in a dirty little one-night stand with a crusty Englishman who had a way with words. On the flight to Paris, my then 8-year-old daughter, Katie and I promised…
‘Paris Was Ours’ Tells the Stories of many writers in the City of Light By Hannah Monahan Penelope Rowlands made a collection of stories from thirty-two writers about their experiences in Paris, France. Bound together in the book Paris Was Ours, is the memoirs of the diverse writers who were…