Hints and tips:
...Jean Paul Gaultier viscose The Body Morphing minidress, £600, doverstreetmarket.com Large Triangles, 2022, by Jesús Pedraglio, $16,000, artsy.net Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1970s wood revolving bookcase...
...Basilica of St Ambrose, visit the Oh Bej!...
...Alterations start from £25, and appointments are advised (though not necessary). kingsroad@rixo.co.uk JS L’Art de l’Aiguille, Paris Hidden away in the quiet Rue Régis, just off St-Germain-des-Prés in the...
...Jean-Luc Godard filmed here with Jean-Paul Belmondo, while Edith Wharton wrote her poem, Mistral in the Maquis, observing the distant island from her château in Hyères....
...Starting at Fori Imperiali and proceeding past the Vittoriano, it also takes in Circo Massimo, the Lungotevere and Castel Sant’Angelo en route to St Peter’s Basilica....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...I just read Glyn Johns’ Sound Man; he was an engineer on The Rolling Stones’s Exile on Main St and The Beatles’s “Let It Be” – all those heavy sounds of the ’70s....
...I also love my black Louis Vuitton roller [case] with grey accents and my double-L monogram on the side....
...People imagine St Barths as a tropical version of St Tropez: pretty, charming but teeming with the frippery and posturing of wealth....
...by adding its neighbour Ch l’Arrosée, naming the brand-new entity Ch Quintus....
...Just outside Grenoble, the Col de l’Arzelier resort, for example, was founded in 1967 and by the 1980s had six lifts....
...Renan and Brenda, who only give their first names, say they are here “to see what’s going on”....
...As Jean-Christophe Babin, Bulgari’s group CEO, told me: “Place Vendôme is the high-jewellery centre of Paris, and therefore of the world!”...
...I always use the same two: Ambre Nuit by Dior, and L’Eau d’Hiver by Frédéric Malle for daytime. They aren’t spicy, they are very dry. I don’t like sweet perfumes....
...Shaheen ValléeDirector of the Geoeconomics Programme, DGAP Philipp HeimbergerVienna Institute for International Economic Studies Dirk BezemerProfessor, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen L...
...Back at St John’s College in Portsmouth all those years ago, it was sink or swim — and I chose to swim....
...Pretty luxurious for the money. £19.95 Stone, Vine & Sun Jean-Louis Chave Sélection, Offerus 2017 St-Joseph, Northern Rhône 14%From the most admired producer of Hermitage....
...“We have outperformed the market in a spectacular way,” said L’Oréal’s chief executive Jean-Paul Agon. “This confirms that our strategy to focus on Asia, skincare, and luxury has paid off.”...
....£13 The Real Wine Co Dom de l’Idylle, Vieille Vigne 2019 Savoie 11.5%Light, fresh and just the right side of watery because there is so much delicate fruit, with a hint of alpine flowers....
...London; Rev T K Hole, Sheffield; Robert Smith, Norfolk Polymath 1,013: Bob Walker, Nuneaton Crossword 16,111: Magnus Chisholm, Ross-shire; J Verge , Dorset; Steven Smith, Switzerland Polymath 1,012: Brenda...
...You’ll find a great butcher called Boucherie Ché Yo’ in St Jean, just behind the airport, and Le Ti-Marché in L’Orient is the place for passion fruit, avocados and rum from Guadeloupe....
...One of the best is the concept store L’Eclaireur, which has a unique mix of clothing, furniture and ceramics....
...Arlot, Nuits-St-Georges, Premier Cru Clos des Forêts St-Georges Dom Pierre Damoy, Grand Cru Clos de Bèze Dom Marquis d’Angerville, Premier Cru Clos des Ducs Dom Michel Lafarge, Volnay, Premier Cru Clos des...
...“Maman, on t’a dit bonjour de l’Écosse.” Lunch does not normally feature prominently in my companion’s routine....
...Café de l’Esplanade , 7th arr. La Rotonde, 6th arr. Le Stresa , 8th arr. Foreigners often mock the French working lunch....
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