Tag Archives: France

Look back of Red Bull X-Alps paragliding competition

The Red Bull X-Alps is a paragliding race in which athletes must hike or fly about 1,200 km across the Alps. Cross-country flying is the classical form of paragliding competitions with championships in club, regional, national and international levels. The Red Bull X-Alps is the world’s toughest adventure race. It’s…

Look back of Red Bull X-Alps paragliding competition

Review of the Sun Trip Alpes 2022

The Sun Trip Alpes 2022, a 2500 kilometer Grenoble-Lyon loop via the Alps, is a race relying solely on muscle power and solar energy. This year, the Sun Trip leads once around and over the Alps, a unique opportunity to discover the diversity of the Alps. Setting off from Grenoble…

Review of the Sun Trip Alpes 2022

In the footsteps of Van Gogh of Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

Vincent Willem van Gogh lived in Arles from 20 February 1888 to 8 May 1889. That is almost 15 months, over 63 weeks, precisely 444 days. During his stay, he produced over 200 paintings, over 100 drawings and watercolours, and wrote some 200 letters. This period in Arles is frequently…

In the footsteps of Van Gogh of Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

Arles Travel Guide, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

Arles is a town of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. It is the largest municipality in metropolitan France with some 75,893 hectares. The city is crossed by the Rhône and is located between Nîmes (30 km north-west) and Marseille (90 km south-east). During the Iron Age,…

Arles Travel Guide, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

Traditional festivals of Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

The Rhône, a powerful and majestic river, a link between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean world, will guide us on our journey in this sunny South to discover the small villages and the people who live there. They are all passionate, holders of unique know-how, masters in their field, independent,…

Traditional festivals of Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

Review of Sun Trip 2018 Lyon-Canton on the New Silk Roads

The 3rd edition of Sun Trip started from Lyon, France on June 15, in celebration of the framework of the Lyon-Canton (Guangzhou) co-operation 30th anniversary. The Sun Trip 2018 revisits the Silk Road with a race relying solely on solar power, 12,000 km through Eurasia on the world’s largest overland…

Review of Sun Trip 2018 Lyon-Canton on the New Silk Roads

Look back of Paris Fashion Week Menswear Spring-Summer 2023, Paris, France

Paris Fashion Week Menswear Spring-Summer 2023 marks the inaugural Paris Fashion Week event for the year, la 2023st from 21-26 June 2022. For the spring/summer 2023 season, Parisian-based designers came out in force in a fascinating display of juxtaposition across the brands, from the most subtle of inspirations to avante-garde…

Look back of Paris Fashion Week Menswear Spring-Summer 2023, Paris, France

Look back of 2021 Christmas season in Paris

Every year when Paris enters the Christmas season, the whole city is filled with the Christmas atmosphere. Countless Christmas decorations cover the City of Light, especially in some famous spots. During this period, more than ten Christmas markets will appear in the city, selling Christmas-themed or special items. At the…

Look back of 2021 Christmas season in Paris

Shopping guide of the Boutiques in Paris, France

A boutique is a small store devoted to retail or both the manufacture and sale of goods. More specifically, it can refer to a small store that sells clothing, jewelry or other luxury goods, usually of a well-known brand. Beyond chic clothing boutiques, you’ll find art galleries, home furnishing emporiums,…

Shopping guide of the Boutiques in Paris, France

Guide of the grocery stores in Paris, France

A grocery store, or a Épicerie, is a local food retailer but also distributes a variety of products unrelated to food. Grocery stores are considered a canonical example of petty-bourgeois operations, widely found in big cities or villages. The grocery store is also, since the advent of mass distribution, a…

Guide of the grocery stores in Paris, France

Look back of the Roaring Twenties in Paris, the Années folles of France

The Années folles (means “crazy years” in French) was the decade of the 1920s in France. The term “Années folles” or “Roaring Twenties” retrospectively designate the European urban exuberance of the years following the First World War. After the First World War, Paris experienced ten years of effervescence (from 1920…

Look back of the Roaring Twenties in Paris, the Années folles of France

Guide of Paris Metro system, France

The Paris Metro system is the best way to get around Paris, with 16 metro lines and more than 300 metro stops that can take you anywhere in Paris in the most convenient way. Having become one of the symbols of Paris, it is characterized by the density of its…

Guide of Paris Metro system, France

Urban adventure guide of the hidden treasure of the Paris Underground, France

The Underground of Paris is a shadow of the City of Light itself, which is just as vast and less well known. The most well-known Paris Metro and the Paris Catacombs only form part of the Parisian underground world. The expression “Underground Paris” (or sometimes Les Dessous de Paris )…

Urban adventure guide of the hidden treasure of the Paris Underground, France

Guide Tour of Paris Orly Airport, France

Aéroport de Paris-Orly is an international airport located partially in Orly and partially in Villeneuve-le-Roi, 13 km (8.1 mi) south of Paris, France. The airport, its terminals and its runways are spread across the departments of Essonne and Val-de-Marne. It is placed under the authority of the Prefect of Police…

Guide Tour of Paris Orly Airport, France

Rungis International Market, Val-de-Marne, France

The Marché International de Rungis is the principal market of Paris,, intended to supply professionals from the entire region, mainly for food and horticultural products, located in the commune of Rungis, in the southern suburbs. The Rungis International Market, with an area of 234 hectares, is a real ecosystem serving…

Rungis International Market, Val-de-Marne, France

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