THE LOUVRE TO OPEN IN ABU DHABI WITH $654 MILLION PRICETAG
A consortium led by Dubai-based Arabtec Holding will build the Louvre Abu Dhabi art gallery for $654 million, the developers of the project announced on Tuesday. Abu Dhabi Tourism Development and Investment Company said construction would start immediately with the aim of opening the museum in 2015. The contract was awarded to an Arabtec-led joint […]
IT’S A GOOD YEAR FOR SCARCE BUBBLES
First the bad news: there is going to be a lot less champagne to go round this year. The good news: what there is could be outstanding. After one of the worst spring growing seasons on record, producers of champagne are bracing themselves for one of the smallest harvests in the last 20 years. But […]
PICKING PARIS’ PERFECT PAIN
The title of Paris’s best baguette has, for the fifth time in six years, gone to one of the bakeries situated in the city’s 18th arrondissement. And while first-time visitors to Paris may delight in any which baguette from any which bakery, not all are created equal. Here’s primer on how to tell a good […]
SKIP FRANCE + DINE IN JAPAN
If you are a foodie, you might be better off planning a trip through Japan this year as it has surpassed France in 3-starred Michelin restaurants, 36:26. Plus the Ritz closes this summer and won’t reopen until 2014. Thanks to AFP-relaxnews, here are all the three-starred restaurants in Japan, by city and area: Hokkaido Sushi […]
FRENCH TOWN FOR PRICE OF NYC STUDIO
Instead of buying a studio in New York City you can now have an abandonned village, Courbefy, located in the Limousin region of France (less than 30 miles from Limoges) for €330,000/$438,174. There are reportedly 19 buildings (with residences) in the villages but it also comes with a slew of “thieves, drunks and squatters” who […]