Strangers-on-a-Tram meet at Montpellier’s Hotel ‘Richer de Belleval’

Architecture & Design · Travel
You’ve heard of the Hitchcock thriller, Strangers on a Train (1951), in French, L’Inconnu du Nord-Express, starring Robert Walker and Farley Granger, based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith. But have you heard of “Strangers on a Tram”? I hadn’t either, not until my visit to the beautiful, historic and aesthetic city of Montpellier in ...

Nice’s Windsor Hotel — jungle refuge for traveling arts lovers

Travel
garden patio of nice’s windsor hotel in south of france The artist’s hotel, a venerable tradition, is alive and well in France’s golden Cote d’Azure, aka The Riviera. For three nights prior to attending Montpellier Danse, we recovered from jet-lag in Nice — the sun-dappled, seaside city on the Mediterranean. Our home base was the ...