Colmar

As soon as you enter Colmar, you feel yourself in a town of history and tradition, careful, before all to maintain intact the precious reserves left to it by centuries, reserve of glory, reserve of art, reserve of liberty. Colmar ...

Nancy

Nancy can be considered as a new city, as it emmerged only in the eleventh century. Its grace rises mostly from the eighteenth century with Stanislas Leszczynski, Louis the Sixteenth's step-father. Stanislas, an eagerly architectural builder, decided then to build ...

Strasbourg

Strasbourg, the largest city of Alsace, is a truly international metropolis as well as an old charming provincial city. The old core of the city has remained remarkably intact. It is a very beautiful city irrigated by the two branches ...

Paris Travel Tours- Eiffel tower

You’ve finally afforded the trip of your dreams – Paris, France. You have everything booked except a Paris travel tour; you’ve decided to take that on when you arrive. One of your goals is, of course, the Eiffel Tower. You ...

Visiting Louvre

Almost every tourist to Paris, France plans to visit the world’s largest museum, the Louvre. Characterized by the glass pyramid, it is also one of the world’s most famous landmarks. The museum actually is comprised of three buildings and you ...

Great Paris Travel Advice-See Paris By Boat!

The Seine River is a major river in France and is the slow, moving, romantic waterway that is often seen in pictures of Paris. Many of the famous landmarks in Paris line the banks of the Seine and there are ...

Paris Travel Advice: Da Vinci Code Tours in Paris

If you are looking for something unique to do while in Paris, some great Paris travel advice is to sign up for a Da Vinci Code Tour, which relives the story by following the trail through Paris of the characters ...

Cheap Paris Travel: You gotta eat, right?

So you have decided to make the trek to visit the city of lights. Paris is one of the most popular vacation destinations in the world. In fact, Paris is largely regarded as one of the centers of culinary excellence ...

For Women Only – Paris Travel Tours

Have you or your close friends thought or talked about a trip to France, maybe a stay in Paris? There are many tours available that cater to women only, and several of the top travel agencies can satisfy your need ...

Bicycling in France – Paris Travel Tours

The French have their Tour de France, and many other bicycle racing spectacles as well. There are even major bicycle races in Paris such as the Paris-Nice in March, but what about the visitor cyclist? How do you get around ...

Mandarin Oriental Bangkok Review

Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok is one of those places that everybody that ever goes to Bangkok and has some money, always raves about. Well, I must say I am one of those people. I have stayed in Mandarin Oriental twice, once in a suite (Authors suite I think it was. Decorated [...]

Furama Hotel Kuala Lumpur Review

Decided to start this new section on this blog regarding my numerous visits to hundreds of different hotels around the world, so I think I am quite qualified to write reviews and assess the quality of the hotels on my trips. Hope the readers of this blog find these reviews helpful [...]

Nun Tan Restaurant Rewards Risk Taking

With a little ingenuity and unusual ingredients like ostrich and a mysterious vegetable, Nui Tan has set its menu apart from the competition. Du Van Nga discovers a new favourite in Ba Dinh District. They say it’s better to be born lucky than rich, and I know fortune was definitely smiling [...]

Opera Club Hits High Notes

From the creator of New Century comes the Opera Club, where entertainment and fine Euro-Asian cusine rule. Justine Reilly gives it an encore. It wasn’t until we’d been led to the highest mezzanine floor of the Opera Club that I realised what we had actually entered. At the heart of this [...]

Pho Thin Stir-Fries Up a Brilliant Innovation

Simple but satisfying! Among the innumerable pho shops in Ha Noi, Pho Thin is in a league of its own. How do they make noodles and beef taste so good? Julie Ginsberg finds out. I have a confession to make: for the first three months I lived in Ha Noi, I [...]

Potato Days in Hanoi

GTZ Hanoi, in collaboration with Goethe Institute Hanoi, will hold Potato Days in Hanoi from January 18 to 21 aiming to introduce images demonstrating the challenges, history and chances of future development of potatoes in Vietnam. Potatoes are an important product in Vietnam. It is estimated that more than half a [...]

Ho Chi Minh City- Travel Stories

Australian Michael Smith takes a break from Ho Chi Minh City to savor various epicurean delights and lounge at the beach.Early in the morning at 3 a.m. one of the brothers in the family business wakes up in his Nha Trang home and rides 50 kilometers north along the coast to [...]

Obernai

Leaving the Vosges for the plain, in Upper Alsace (the southern part), there is the same succession of pictures: forest of firs, then a cool and narrow valley, where a little river gently flows, then vieyards and finally, at the foot of the last hill, the watchtowers and belfries of a [...]

Mount Sainte-Odile

Here are the holy places of Alsace. All is here legendary and sacred: the trees, the rocks and the streams. In this place,where still may be seen the foundations of a Roman castellium, a young and beautiful countess had, they say, retired, from pious inclination, to the midst of crevasses and [...]