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Citizen Femme •

Parisian Café Culture: What You Need To Know

Café culture is as engrained in Paris’ identity as its wide boulevards, iconic architecture, and haute couture.

You can’t go more than a few feet without stumbling upon a café, it’s tables and chairs spilling out onto the street, its no-nonsense waiters ready to greet you throughout the day (and most of the night). Forget the museums, galleries, and the Moulin Rouge, if you want to truly understand Parisian culture then you’ve got to look at their cafés. Cafés in Paris date back to the 1600s wh
Luxury Lifestyle Magazine •

Zannier Hotels Le Chalet, Megève, France

Megève is one of France’s most luxurious ski resorts. Its charming, cobbled streets are dotted with elegant restaurants and designer boutiques and with over 400km of ski slopes it offers winter sports in abundance. But once the snow thaws and the temperature soars, is a town famed for its winter adventures still worth a visit? Emilia Harris finds out.

It’s my third morning in Megève and I’ve started a routine. Coffee on the balcony whilst watching the Jaillet gondola in the distance, the first
The Independent •

Salcombe is a classic English beach destination full of new discoveries

The cold wind whips around my ears and violently shakes the branches overhead. Right now, I’m unsure whether the bead plummeting down my cheek is sweat or rain.

As my feet weigh down on the pedals and my legs start to burn, I activate ‘turbo mode’ and battery power aids my climb to the top of the hill. I’m on an e-bike and that bead slipping down my cheek is most certainly rain – even on the steepest of South Devon hills, I’ve barely broken a sweat.
Citizen Femme •

The Best Hotel View In Florence? Wake Up At Portrait Firenze

Picture perfect Florence is one of Europe’s must-see destinations. It’s packed with so much art and culture it’s surprising the city doesn’t sag under the weight of all the Botticelli paintings, Michelangelo sculptures and marble cathedrals.

There is so much to love about the city, from its hearty Tuscan cuisine to its world-class museums and Renaissance architecture, and it’s compact enough to explore on foot.
Citizen Femme •

The CF Guide To Slow Travel In Tuscany

There’s a pleasure to be found in carefree idleness. In Italy, they call it dolce far niente, literally meaning sweet nothing. It’s about indulging in a slower pace and revelling in the pleasantries of doing nothing much at all.

The idea might sound simple, but it can be exceptionally hard to do nothing and not feel a nagging sense of guilt about your lack of productivity. But in the hilltop towns of rural Tuscany, dolce far niente flows as abundantly as the region’s Chianti wine.
Citizen Femme •

Before I was A Hotel: The Story Behind These Buildings

Hotels located within historic buildings are truly one of a kind. Former factories, breweries, and banks are amazing spaces for hotels thanks to their imposing architecture and intriguing history – they offer an old-world charm which new-build hotels just can’t replicate.

Original features like stained glass windows, frescoed ceilings, and parquet flooring give us a peek into a building’s past and with a bit of careful restoration, they can play an integral part in a hotel’s interior design.
Citizen Femme •

Upgrade Isolation The 12 Most Secluded Remote Islands And Private Hotels

Soft powdery sand between our toes. The damp, mossy smell of a rainforest teeming with life. Sunset cocktails next to the shimmering ocean. Snow-covered mountains and wild, untamed landscapes. We’re yearning for all of it right now.

Staying indoors for the foreseeable has got us reminiscing about past trips, and meticulously planning future travels. If we’ve got to stay indoors and self-isolate then we’d much rather be doing it on a far-flung tropical island, a luxury farm in Northern Iceland, or even a rainforest lodge in Ecuador.
Yorkshire Post •

Washington DC - The US capital skips to a modern beat

Washington, DC feels familiar. When you first set eyes on the US Capitol building (home of Congress), the Statue of Freedom standing triumphantly on top, you feel acquainted.

This close acquaintance is partly down to the big screen; from the Capitol building being flattened in Designated Survivor to the Lincoln Memorial being blown to smithereens in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Hollywood can’t get enough of America’s capital.
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