France

One of the late September weekends, I flew to Bordeaux where I met with my Czech friends. The plan was to enjoy a nice girls´ trip – to discover the city, but also to rent a car and do a short road trip around with some wine tasting, as we…

Somewhere in March last year, we decided with friends to spend the June‘s long weekend in Alsace and so I had the chance to explore this charming French region for the first time. As you may know, I love wine as I love both road trips and France and so…

Last year in June, I got to visit the still quite new museum of contemporary art in Paris, the Louis Vuitton Foundation located in Bois de Boulogne. This majestic and elegant building is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture and definitely needs a visit when in Paris, you will be blown…

If you still haven´t done your winter holidays plans, let me help you with the decision making! Today I will tell you something about skiing in Les Trois Vallées, an excellent ski area situated in the department Savoie in France. As its name suggests, it covers a territory of 3…

Versailles, one of the most splendid castles ever and an important seat of the French kings for centuries, lies about 20 km South-West from Paris. The present appearance of the complex owns a lot to Louis XIV., alias the King of the Sun, who transformed a small hunting residence to a sumptuous palace. The gardens…

One of the most beautiful French regions, Languedoc-Roussillon, lies in the Southern France between Pyrenees and Provence. It is a region with the rich history, geography, and culture. Whether you a nature lover, history lover, or just a ‘bon-vivant’ looking for some “art de la vie” inspiration, whether you are family with children,…

While spending our summer holidays in the south of France last month, we made it to visit Montpellier, the capital of Languedoc-Roussillon. We spent a pleasant evening in this young, vibrating and fastest growing city of the region and here are some pictures that I managed to make quite quickly. Have a drink…

I have visited Champagne region in France twice. My first trip to Champagne was to the Southern part Côte des Bars and this year we visited the heart of Champagne – Côte des Blancs. My sister came to visit me in Belgium, so we took her there, hoping she might develop a passion for…

My first trip to Champagne was more precisely to Côte des Bar (in Aube department, between villages Bar-sur-Seine and Bar-sur-Aube). As already mentioned before in my general post about Champagne, we are talking about a wine region where Pinot Noir is predominantly gown type of grapes. We visited Côte des…

Sparkling wine has become a symbol of party and joy. A wine that made an emblem from the name of the region of its origin. Only sparkling wines produced in the region of Champagne in France can be called Champagne. No other sparkling wine anywhere else in the world cannot use…