From children’s menus to paper table cloths for drawing on, there are plenty of ways that restaurants in this gourmet city cater to little ones. Paris has a reputation for being one of the gastro capitals of the world and rightly so, but it doesn’t mean that it is all “haute cuisine” and “snooty” waiters that would turn their nose up at a table with children...
Photo credit - Camano 10 (Flickr) A recent article featured in Time’s newsfeed posted news of French cattle ranchers feeding their cows up to 2 bottles of wine per day. Yes, you read it correctly, even the cows can get a little tipsy in France. As noted in the article, “Japan’s Kobe cows were the first to be fed an occasional beer or ale to stimulate their appetites.” It’s...
Day two and the wine experience 'proper' began, with a sojourn to Bordeaux's oldest region – Graves. Located immediately south of Bordeaux, the vineyards of the Pessac-Leognan appellation were originally part of the Graves region, having recently been given their own appellation in 1987 in recognition of the superior quality of their wines. My chauffeur took me to two of the region's most lauded estates, Carbonnieux and Smith Haut Lafite
James Lawrence takes a luxury wine tour through the region of Bordeaux – you may have heard of it Bordeaux is probably the most well-known of France’s (if not the world’s) great wine regions. Indeed, even committed teetotallers will have heard of this legendary name and it would be fair to say that Bordeaux literally represents mecca for most wine lovers, albeit an extremely diverse...
During the summer of 2007, I flew to Paris on my own for a heartfelt reunion with Matt who was deployed to Iraq for 18 months. His ‘leave’ aka mid-deployment vacation had come up and we decided to meet in Europe instead of him coming home. For obvious reasons, we didn’t think he needed the questioning of “how is it? what’s it like over there? oh my god, you’re being...
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