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Are you going to Paris this spring? Has Paris turned from its customary red, white, blue to yellow and green? Yellow of course is the yellow of the “gilets jaunes” (yellow vests or “GJs”) or what has been called “yellow chaos”. Thankfully, Paris survived the gilets jaunes final demonstration (“Act 18”) this past Saturday (16th Read more
We at Madeleine’s spent a most enjoyable Saturday afternoon in London discovering the city’s first new theatre in 80 years, the Bridge Theatre. “The Bridge” of course refers to the Tower Bridge, and the theatre was by the river and had opened with fanfare in the autumn of 2017 (with none other than Dame Maggie Smith Read more
If you are in Hong Kong during one of its “cold spells” like it is right now (“it’s colder than London!”), you can always take umbrage in the malls like The Landmark wherein lies one of our favourite places for a hot chocolate, Le Salon de Thé de Joël Robuchon. It’s not cheap (and we Read more
We at Madeleine Travels love the “lower ground floor” flats in London. While Oscar Wilde urges us to see stars from the gutters, we can certainly glimpse through to the partially subterranean living and dining rooms through the gutters in London (see Madeleine goes to London)! Might the Brits’ subterranean living tradition be related to Read more