Bonus: Another French Riviera Winter Walk in Nice
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Bonus: Another French Riviera Winter Walk in Nice

Urban walks in the South of France A French Riviera Walk in Nice For You Tracing the footsteps of an adventurous friar, the ancient Romans and Queen Victoria Today’s post is some sort of a post-scriptum to our brief series of seasonal promenades along the Cote d’Azur: a walk that we discovered only recently, in…

Beautiful and Young – They came to Die in Menton
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Beautiful and Young – They came to Die in Menton

Urban Walks in the French Riviera Sunny Menton is to die for When Menton’s old chateau was razed in the late 19th century, the city administration decided to convert the grounds into a municipal cemetery. This turned out to be an excellent business decision, because at the very moment the issue was decided, thousands of…

Themed Paris Urban Walk – Hemingway’s Latin Quarter
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Themed Paris Urban Walk – Hemingway’s Latin Quarter

Paris Urban Walk III The first two episodes in this short series of Paris walks took their cues from paintings and historic photos. This Paris urban walk shall be guided by words. A Paris Urban Walk with Hemingway’s Moveable Feast I would like to invite you to follow me on a literary walk through the…

Themed Paris Urban Walk – The Artists of Montmartre
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Themed Paris Urban Walk – The Artists of Montmartre

Paris Urban Walk I Walking Paris – The Artists of Montmartre The Parisian district of Montmartre has a unique position in art history. During one relatively short period in the late 19th and early 20th century, altogether not much longer than 20 years, nearly all the greatest painters of their time lived and painted here….