RYANAIR has been forced to cancel hundreds of flights today due to French Air Traffic Control (ATC) strikes. The walkouts not only affect French airports, where as many as 70 per cent of flights have been grounded, with routes flying over the country also affected. 4 Flights throughout Europe have been cancelled or delayed 4 … Read more
“For now, we have more proposals than we can possibly execute,” says Ducasse. Chef Alain Ducasse is busy travelling the world, visiting his various restaurants. Photo: Alain Ducasse at Morpheus He makes time for certain chefs, however. In February, Ducasse teamed up with Daniel Humm, the renegade Swiss vegan chef of Eleven Madison Park in … Read more
A BIZARRE replica of Paris complete with a fake Eiffel Tower lies nearly abandoned in China. Tianducheng, in Hangzhou, could be easily confused for the French capital at first glance with the architecture oozing Parisian chic. 6 The copy of the Eiffel Tower is only a third of the original’s heightCredit: Alamy 6 The development … Read more
They say you only have 18 summers with your children before they desert you in favour of their own adventures. So, how to make the most of your time off together? Luckily, at most well-run hotels, it’s no longer a case of raised eyebrows at youngsters in the dining room, no matter how upmarket the … Read more
A FRENCHMAN who fended off the Sydney knife attack killer has been granted permanent residency in Australia. Hero Damien Guerot, 31, was nicknamed Bollard Man after security footage showed him warding off Joel Cauchi with a plastic barrier post. 4 Hero Damien Guerot, 31, was nicknamed Bollard Man after fending off the Sydney knife attack … Read more
A GAME OF CLUE: Ahead of the opening of Dover Street Market Paris next month, the retailer’s website keeps drip-feeding clues about the hotly anticipated new fashion destination. News flash: It’s not simply a shop, but more of a building. “DSMP is like a helix, a diagrammatic manifestation of various connected activities making an integrated … Read more
MILAN — Olympic fever is getting higher and higher. As sportswear brands have started to lay their cards on the table and reveal the gear they designed for national teams — including Nike’s kits for the U.S. athletes and Lululemon’s for Team Canada earlier this month — Berluti on Wednesday will officially unveil the uniforms it … Read more
Perhaps the most glorious mosque to be found in a non-Muslim-majority country, this one is also very welcoming to tourists. The Grand Mosque of Paris’ towering minaret. Photo: Ronan O’Connell The mosque neighbours the Jardin des Plantes botanical garden, in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement, in Paris’ inner-south, and costs €3 (US$3.20) to … Read more
Before his current decade in Switzerland, he launched Shang Palace at the Shangri-La Paris, Europe’s first outpost of this famed, 50-year-old restaurant brand. In 2012, Xu helped the French venue earn a star a year after opening, making it the only Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant in Paris. The interior of Le Tsé Fung, at La Réserve … Read more
Five years after being ravaged by fire, Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral has returned to splendour months ahead of its planned reopening, participants in a recent visit to the monument said. The April 15, 2019 fire at the Unesco-listed cathedral, which used to see 12 million visitors a year, shocked the world. But now, the inside … Read more
