Skip to main content

Le Château de Champs-sur-Marne – a petit Versailles

  This magnificent château has often been overlooked in favour of more famous palaces such as Versailles, Fontainebleau or Chantilly. Located in the verdant département of Seine-et-Marne some 18 kms east of Paris, it’s a perfect candi…

‘Don Quixote’: a perfect, festive season ballet in Paris

In Paris during the Christmas/New Year season, we were thrilled to see the latest revival of this much-loved ballet at Opera Bastille.  Choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev for the Vienna State Opera in 1966, his version was inspired by the original…

A Touch of Paris Arrives in Sydney

On Sunday evening we attended the members’ free viewing of the ‘Lady and the Unicorn’ series of tapestries on loan from the Musée de Cluny in Paris to the Art Gallery of NSW.  And what a visual treat it is!

The Big Affordable Art Fair in Paris

If you could suddenly transport yourself to Paris in a few weeks, you would be in time to catch a most interesting fair, or Salon, Le Grand Salon d’Art Abordable (roughly translates as the Big Fair of Affordable Art), put together by the gloriou…