Marie’s Travel Chronicles

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Six Nights That Shouldn’t Be Possible

An Enchanted Summer After Dark: Six Nights Across Europe | Journeys of a Lifetime Six Nights Across a European Summer An Enchanted Summer, After Dark(...)

The European Foods That Refuse to Travel

The European Foods That Refuse to Travel | Journeys of a Lifetime A Gastronomy Guide by Journeys of a Lifetime The European Foods That Refuse(...)

Beneath Europe: Roman Cellars, Cave Cities and a Lake in the Dark

Beneath Europe: Roman Cellars, Cave Cities and a Lake in the Dark | Journeys of a Lifetime An Underground Guide by Journeys of a Lifetime(...)

Where Europe Meets the East: Five Cities Where You Change Worlds

Where Europe Meets the East: Five Cities Where You Change Worlds | Journeys of a Lifetime A Cultural Guide by Journeys of a Lifetime Where(...)

Monaco to Cannes: The Ultimate French Riviera Drive

Monaco to Cannes: The Ultimate French Riviera Drive — Journeys of a Lifetime A Riviera Guide by Journeys of a Lifetime Monaco to Cannes: The(...)

The Best Oysters in France: A Region-by-Region Guide

The Best Oysters in France: A Region-by-Region Guide — Journeys of a Lifetime A Gastronomy Guide by Journeys of a Lifetime The Best Oysters in(...)

California vs French Wine: What’s the Difference?

California vs French Wine: What Actually Sets Them Apart — Journeys of a Lifetime A Wine Guide by Journeys of a Lifetime California vs French(...)

Best Day Trips from Paris — A Private Travel Guide

15 Best Day Trips from Paris — Journeys of a Lifetime A Guide by Journeys of a Lifetime 15 Best Day Trips from Paris Paris(...)

Amalfi Coast in Summer: The Right Hour from Capri to Ravello

You came for the view.You stayed because someone knew when to feed you. The stretch between Salerno and the islands has been photographed as much(...)

Europe’s Summer Music Festivals: When the Setting Is Half the Performance

Most people spend the European summer in the wrong place at the wrong hour. They queue at noon for the things that are best at(...)

The Hour a Place Becomes Itself : Five summer evenings in Europe

Some places are beautiful all year.In summer, they begin to perform. There is an hour, in the places worth travelling for, when the day softens(...)

Before the grandstands fill: Chantilly at dawn

It is six in the morning. The forest is still half-dark, the air cold enough to see your breath. And then, out of the mist(...)

La Levantá: the 3,000-year-old tuna hunt that Japan couldn’t resist, and Europe almost forgot

Every May, before most of the world has heard the word, buyers from Tokyo land in a small Andalusian fishing port with cash, coolers, and(...)

What blooms in May and disappears: Five gardens that exist on their own terms

There is a category of place that does not exist for tourism. It exists for itself, for the thing it does, the thing it grows,(...)

Where Europe’s Greatest Chefs Go to Think: Six Gardens That Changed Fine Dining

The Gardener Before the Chef What if the most important person in a Michelin-starred kitchen isn’t the chef? What if it’s the gardener? Behind six(...)

The European Tennis Circuit: A Luxury Journey from Rome to Wimbledon

The European clay season opens in Rome in April. It ends at Wimbledon in late June. Four tournaments, four countries, two surfaces, roughly ten weeks.(...)

Europe in Spring: Eight Experiences That Only Happen Once a Year

Spring in Europe isn’t a season. It’s a series of brief openings, tidal, astronomical, liturgical, biological, that appear for days, sometimes hours, then close for(...)

12 Extraordinary Moments: Your Year of Uncommon Experiences in France

From the Inside Here’s the thing about truly good travel: it’s rarely the moment you planned for. It’s the one you didn’t see coming. When(...)