Fancy spending time afloat this summer? Thought so. Your timing is spot-on. Sales of super-yachts to British buyers have jumped this year, and demand for chartering boats in the South of France and Caribbean is also booming. A week might cost you GBP 250,000 for a top-of-the-range craft sleeping 12, but you are guaranteed to be rubbing shoulders with celebrity aficionados like Lewis Hamilton and…
France is the world’s most visited country; its capital a tourist magnet. How is a truly Parisian experience possible at the height of the holiday season?
Try the Canal St Martin, which bisects the 10th and 19th arrondissements in north-east Paris. It is a part of the city overlooked by mainstream visitors, and by other Parisians, lending it a raffish, slightly undeveloped air. Still very…