With all the marketing hype on the new A380, I was quite looking forward to our first flight on this new plane.  With the larger number of passengers, would onboarding and disembarkation take longer, would meals take a bit longer …

If shopping is your passion, a visit to the grand department stores of Paris is a must. Parisiens are très chic and there are some really nice designer stuff to be had in the shops.  However, outside of the sales period, haute couture is pretty outrageously priced, and one daren’t even walk into those expensive boutiques along rue du Faubourg St-Honoré and avenue Montaigne in the 8th arrondissement as everything looks so precious. In the department stores you can look to your heart’s content and not feel out of place.

Mon Dieu! All those late nights watching the finish of each stage of the Tour de France and we’re suffering from sleep deprivation and exhaustion from watching those huge mountain climbs.

Stage 13 of the Tour de France is still in the Languedoc-Roussillon region which stretches from the foothills of the Pyrenees on the Spanish border to the mouth of the Rhône. This stage starts from Narbonne and ends …

Well, we’re at the half way stage and all fans of Cadel Evans, especially his mum, sighed a huge sigh of relief when he survived that horrendous crash. His cracked helmet explains how huge the impact was and …

Well, I caught Gabriel Gate’s Taste le Tour for the first time last night.  Gabriel grew up in the Loire Valley and as the cyclists are in his home region, Gabriel was on the spot to provide interesting …

A tree-lined avenue marks the start of the grand entrance to Château de Chenonceau. Whilst you can picture gold-gilded, horse-drawn carriages transporting its royal residents to and from the château, us …

The Loire Valley is home to over 100 French châteaux, some of these are spectacularly grand.  On our château trail we visited Ch…

The world’s most gruelling bicycle race is just around the bend.  The 2008 Tour de France marks the 95th anniversary of this high profile professional cycling event.  Competitors in this 23 day annual event will hit …

Whereas in the northern part of Italy, we have Milano, one of the main centers of high fashion in the world, far away, towards the southern spur of the country can be found the town of …