Le Marais, Paris
It looks like a taco shop. It is much more than that.
One of the world's fifty best cocktail bars sits behind a small door at the back of this restaurant in the Marais. The tacos are also excellent.
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The Lavender Guide: Provence
Which areas peak when, how to arrive before the crowds, and the fields that never appear on any recommended list.
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Côte d'Azur
The Cannes Film Locations Guide: Côte d'Azur
Fourteen films across seventy years of Hollywood on the Côte d'Azur — Hitchcock to Iron Man, Bardot to Russell Crowe, Cannes through Monte-Carlo and inland to the Luberon, plus both adaptations of Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger 1958 and Durga Chew-Bose 2024). Part 1 walks each film with trailer, stills, editorial note, and the specific locations it touched — including the seven-location version of Magic in the Moonlight (Villa Eilenroc, Hôtel Belles Rives, Villa La Renardière, Château du Rouet, Hôtel Negresco, Opéra de Nice, and the Côte d'Azur Observatory). Part 2 lays out the one-, two-, or three-day tour we'd run if you have a Festival break — Day 1 Coastal Loop, Day 2 Inland Pilgrimage, Day 3 the Magic in the Moonlight Day — with driving directions, lunch anchors, and the order we'd run it in.
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Notes from the field.
The Italians are storytellers.
A week at Palazzo di Varignana — Emilia-Romagna's largest olive grove, four storytellers, and a wellness program built on a Sardinian grandmother who walks to mass every morning.
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A coastal day from Valbonne.
Thirty minutes south, the start of the Esterel coast — the beach club that runs by reservation, the Michelin restaurant upstairs, and the private boat the concierge will hand you the keys to.
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Tourrettes-sur-Loup, by an editor who lives thirty minutes away.
The perched village above Vence — what to buy, where to eat, when to come.
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You don't have to stay there.
A 1950s seaside hotel on the Esterel coast, two pools — one carved into the rocks, one on the deck above — a small daily allotment of pool passes, and the better way to approach Saint-Tropez.
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A Map to the Riviera Hollywood Has Been Quietly Sketching for Seventy Years
During the Festival, the Croisette belongs to the cameras. The rest of the Côte d'Azur has been a film set far longer than it has been a red carpet — and most of the locations are still there, waiting for an afternoon to spare.
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Detour, Grasse
The first table on opening night. The 3 PM dinner the south of France does not have. A new restaurant from people we knew before they were running it.
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Lavender in Provence: Timing, Fields, and What Most Guides Get Wrong
Timing, fields, and the map we have been refining since 2011.
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