France – Flung

A History of Hennessy, from Ireland To France To America

Sarah Stodola — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:57:06 +0000

At the tail end of a vacation in France a few years ago, my boyfriend and I had a couple days in our rental car to get back to Paris from Bordeaux, where we’d been enjoying the countryside and the ocean and the wine and the perfectly ripe avocados. We had no plan, just a general direction we needed to pursue, waiting along the way for something to pique our interest enough to stop. I remember whirring past windmills and […]

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A Slice of Old Paris at the Hotel Langlois

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:32:35 +0000

There’s something weird going on with Paris hotels, I gradually concluded as I conducted the research for a place to stay for four September nights. At a certain price point of $300-ish per night, the aesthetic leaves classic Paris behind for something that would be more at home at South Beach circa turn of the millennium—flat shiny surfaces and purple neon lighting and pop art lead the way. It couldn’t be farther from what I am seeking out when I […]

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The Decades Collide at Chez Jeannette

Sarah Stodola — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 02:17:59 +0000

We Americans can never get over Parisians’ aptitude for a drifting hour spent sitting at a café, drinking, smoking, talking when the mood strikes, which is often. We want to do it, too, and we try, when we visit Paris. We forego everything that’s been reinforced in us since our school days about the straight line between hard work and self-worth. We try to put down our phones, and order our drinks and stare at these creatures who know how […]

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