Paris Getaways
Beautiful Burgundy
I’d been waiting for an opportunity to visit Beaune and especially the Hostellerie de Levernois, so when a room became available on July 4th I grabbed it. I knew we were getting close when the beautiful white Charolais cows could be seen sitting under shady trees.
After years of marketing Relais & Chateaux [...]
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Thirty-four years had elapsed since my last visit to the Chateaux of the Kings in the Loire Valley. An email from Pascale inviting me to visit La Tourainière, her chambre d’hote near Tours was all it took to send me on the road.
To create a full two-day excursion I bookended the visit with [...]
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We were staying at L’Auberge de la Source, a short bus ride away in nearby Bernaville-la-Bertran. Our suite was on the second floor of a classic colombage (half-timbered) building. A small entry room and a spacious bedroom with blonde, planked floors, flat screen TVs, Wi-Fi and down comforters give the space a rustically modern feel. [...]
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M had lubed the car, filled the tank and we were off on a gentle two-hour drive to Joigny, along the banks of the Yonne in Northern Burgundy (a 1 hour and 15 minute train ride from Paris (Bercy) was another option.)
We pulled up in front of the entrance to La Cote Saint Jacques [...]
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Weekend in Vichy
Forget Claude Rains contemptuously trashing a bottle of Vichy water at the end of Casablanca and forget Maréchal Petain’s collaborationist government. Vichy (Ville de l’eau chaude) is fabulous.
With major support from Emperor Louis Napoleon III who came for the waters Vichy is an architectural delight combining the masonry and iron terraces [...]
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It had been a sweltering week, with an equally unbearable weekend on tap. Fortunately, M, the Berlin connection, had booked us into the Manoir de la Maison Blanche, a charming 17th chambre d’hote in Amboise.
Just an a hour by TGV to Tours and a quick 25km by rental car in the heart of [...]
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I packed my bag and headed for the Gare Montparnasse and a 10:45 TGV to Libourne with local connection to Bergerac. Four hours later Anne, the lovely Belgian owner, picked me up at le gare and I began my introduction to Perigord with a 30-minute ride interrupted by a stop at a chateau to taste [...]
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