This article originally appeared on February 12, 2015 on examiner.com The massacre of four of France’s best-known cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo offices sets an eerie stage for the retrospective…
Overshadowed by nearby Covent Garden and the theatre district, London’s Seven Dials never became a tourist destination. Yet the seven cobblestoned streets that radiate from a central square with a…
What is it about Ontario's breathtaking Algonquin Park , with its 7630 square kilometres of forests, lakes and rivers that resonates so strongly? There is something primeval here, hard to…
I stepped out of my hotel room onto a near-empty beach with eggshell-coloured sand. About twenty steps later, I was in the pristine, turquoise waters of Meads Bay, on the…
San Francisco has always been a Francophile’s refuge. The French influence began with the city itself. Some of the first immigrants were Parisians feeling the uprising of l848. And of…
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In France writer Pierre Assouline is a literary star. He has a weekly column in the daily paper, LeMonde where he also writes the most popular literary blog in France. He has published…
Montmartre Mon Amour Hotel Montmartre Mon Amour, Paris by Jacqueline Swartz The theme of Paris’ Hotel Montmartre Mon Amour, is love – or rather passion, expressed by celebrated French writers, singers and…
BOSTON UNCOMMON: Combining Hipness with History Taking a water taxi for a dreamy ride from a waterfront hotel to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art is like a screenshot of what Boston…
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2012 edition of Ensemble Vacations. Click here to see a PDF of the original article Architecture Blooms in the Sonoran Desert In the…