As the Olympics take over Paris, the hospitality scene is expanding in the city — and beyond — with a handful of new hotel openings worth bookmarking for a visit once the crowds have died down. Le Grand Hôtel Cayré opened in the Seventh Arrondissement earlier this month with 123 rooms, all with handcrafted wooden beds and mustard yellow velvet chairs, some with balconies and views of the Sacre Coeur or Eiffel Tower. In Carry-le-Rouet, a seaside village outside of Marseille, L’Hôtel Bleu’s design follows its name with 44 harbor-view rooms decorated in shades of blue. The property’s restaurant offers three seafood-heavy, Mediterranean-inspired tasting menus, while a private cinema room can be reserved when the weather calls for some indoor time. Further east toward Cannes, in the commune of Mougins, Hôtel Le Mas Candille was recently redesigned by the architect and decorator Hugo Toro, whose hand-painted patterns appear on the curtains and carpets in the 46 rooms. Its Glow House spa has four treatment rooms, each with its own terrace, and a private swimming pool overlooking Provence. In Nice’s old town, Hôtel du Couvent opened last month within a 17th-century convent surrounded by two-and-a-half acres of gardens. The former nuns’ herbal shop has been revived and now offers personalized remedies, some made from herbs grown on the property. There’s also a bathing area with pools of varying temperatures inspired by the nearby Roman baths.
Learning to love the rain: don’t let bad weather ruin your vacation
13.07.2024 - 08:22 / lonelyplanet.com
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If you take the sunny and tropical out of a sunny, tropical paradise, what exactly is left? Lonely Planet contributor Chris Dong explores how to travel when the weather just isn’t what you expect.
Most terrestrial animals seek shelter from the rain in a tree or log, under rocks or leaves, or underground. Meanwhile, humans have engineered manmade ways to dodge a downpour. Umbrellas and ponchos help prevent – but don’t completely eliminate – skin-to-skin contact with the elements.
Kids are sometimes allowed to frolic in it, but doing so as an adult is ripe for potential derision and ridicule – or, at the very least, a raised eyebrow. The truth is, we’ve been culturally predisposed to pretty much hate when it rains.
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Until such a service permeates all aspects of life, a money-back guarantee for an unexpected shower isn’t likely to happen. Perhaps then, we can look at things from an alternate perspective. Maybe the issue isn’t so much that it’s too rainy outside (or too hot, too cold, or too whatever ) but the notion you think that it shouldn’t be. The weather is just the weather. And we’re all along for the ride.
On so many of my trips – whether it was hiking Bali’s Mt Batur in a torrential downpour or languishing in the extreme heat and humidity in Delhi – conditions were less than ideal. In those moments, it’s easy to place blame (and trust me, I did). However, there came a point when I started flipping the script. Feeling disappointed by the weather is normal, but can we look for ways to accept whatever atmospheric phenomena are thrust upon us? With the world’s climate inevitably changing, this is conceivably the only way forward.
“I didn’t sign up for this,” I recently muttered under my breath as I looked out into the interior courtyard of my apartment building, a carport-equipped Southern California complex. It was raining. Again.
Nine months earlier, I decided to move here – in part for the endless blue sky. (On average, there are 284 sunny days per year in Los Angeles.) Yet here we were: another dreary, precipitation-filled day in a place that sold me on eternal sunshine. Then, I remembered I had been wanting to visit Bergamot Station Arts Center, a collection of indoor art galleries – and my afternoon was salvaged.
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