Tis the season for French Christmas transport strikes. French transport unions have a habit of throwing a spanner in the works of people’s Christmas travel plans. The risk is real. Be prepared. Here’s what you need to know about travels in France over coming weeks leading up to Christmas.
Here’s the less-than-tasteful truth about the industrial croissants and other Viennoiseries pastries you are being sold in French bakeries. At least two-thirds of croissants, pain au chocolat, and other favourite French bakery treats are ready-made, poor quality and industrial. As well as being unnutritious and unhealthy, they are toxic and dangerous.
France’s ‘capital of Europe’ has one of the best pastry traditions in the country. Here are 4 of the best pâtisseries in Strasbourg, which could also qualify as the capital of sweets, chocolate and pastry making.
This dazzling Italian port-city is the birthplace of one of the world’s greatest explorers, Christopher Columbus. There’s an irony to that, given that the Ligurian capital remains relatively undiscovered.
About 40 kilometres from Sandakan in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah, Pulau Libaran may look like another idyllic island in the turquoise Sulu Sea. But its nickname, “Turtle Island”, comes from the sanctuary it has turned into for one of the world’s most adored yet threatened sea creatures.
Travel Sweden’s High Coast: The far-flung Höga Kusten is a wild and wonderful place. Almost as far north as you…
