Tag: France
Olympics 2024 in Paris: what to expect as a tourist?
The venues for the 2024 Paris Olympics are partly located in the city's historic center. A unique setting that will give television channels the opportunity to produce exceptional images, but will also impose heavy constraints on the city's inhabitants...and...
Drouant Restaurant Paris: a praise for mediocrity
With good food but below promise and catastrophic service, this long-awaited dinner at Drouant turned out to be a real wreck. I'm not about to return any time soon.
I had eaten at Drouant in the past, in a...
Copenhagen-Paris on SAS with SAS Plus (operated by Jet Time): better than a real SAS flight?
If the service is equivalent to that of a real SAS flight, this Boeing 737 Jet Time used between Copenhagen and Paris seemed to me more comfortable than the Airbus of the Scandinavian major.
The final leg of this trip...
Air France Business, Paris Charles-de-Gaulle – Boston Logan, Boeing 787-9: Excellent service but stressful flight
It is now the last step of this one-way trip that takes us to the United States... What an adventure!
As a reminder, here is the itinerary followed:
Boarding
We left the lounge well after the theoretical boarding time: we waited for...
Air France Business Lounge, Paris Charles-de-Gaulle Hall M: Certainly the best architecture of the platform
It's the big day! After months of preparation, the time has come to fly to Boston for this big international move.
As a reminder, here is the itinerary followed:
Check-In and ground experience
We left the Renaissance Paris Nobel Tour Eiffel 4h30...
Aux Lyonnais in Paris: the Lyonnais bouchon revisited with creativity
The Aux Lyonnais restaurant in Paris offers Lyon-inspired cuisine revisited in an original and creative way, in a setting more than a hundred years old.
Aux Lyonnais is a restaurant where I had already been several times years ago...
Debriefing my stay in Lille
A few words about my recent stay in Lille, including what to take away from it, the choices I was happy with, and the things I could have done better or differently, to help you plan your own.
You'll find...
Renaissance Paris Nobel Tour Eiffel: Still a success
After a long drive from our London hotel, we finally arrived at our temporary home in Paris, before continuing our journey to Boston.
As a reminder, here is the itinerary followed:
Booking
For our long and complex itinerary to Boston, it was...
Visit Lille for a weekend
Lille is a lively, pleasant city with a very interesting cultural heritage. Its partly pedestrianized town center makes it ideal for strolling.
Lille is one of those cities I've often visited on business, for a few hours or even a...