Travel guides, destination tips, and local insights for the French Riviera.
There is a moment, as the road curves steeply out of Beaulieu-sur-Mer and the limestone walls close in on either side, when you understand why cinematographers have always been drawn to this part of the coast. Then the village appears: grey and ancient against the sky, and below it, impossibly far below, the Mediterranean opens […]
Read moreThe light is what they don’t warn you about. Not the summer light, fierce and flattening, turning every bay the colour of a postcard you have seen before, but the October light, the pale gold of an April morning, the extraordinary clarity of a January afternoon when the coast belongs to almost nobody. The French […]
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One day in Nice, done properly: the Cours Saleya market at breakfast, the Old Town and Colline du Chateau, Matisse and Chagall, lunch on Nicoise cooking, the Promenade at sunset. The order matters.
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The real Cannes is not the Croisette. It is Le Suquet on the hill, the Forville market, the Lerins Islands offshore, and the old port that predates the Film Festival by several centuries. A guide to Cannes that goes beyond the obvious.
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The French Riviera has been a film location since the 1950s. From the Grande Corniche chase in GoldenEye to Grace Kelly on the Moyenne Corniche in To Catch a Thief — a guide to the real locations and what they look like today.
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The French Riviera most people miss: medieval hill villages perched above the coast at 400, 700, 800 metres. A guide to Eze, Peillon, Sainte-Agnes, Gourdon, and Saint-Paul-de-Vence — and how to visit them without a rental car.
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Three days is the sweet spot for the French Riviera. Here is a day-by-day private tour guide covering Nice, Monaco, Eze, Cannes, Antibes, and Saint-Paul-de-Vence — with the best order to see everything without wasting a single hour.
Read more Eze sits at 429 metres above the Mediterranean on a rock that should not support a village but does. Here is everything worth knowing before you visit, including when to go, what to see, and what most people miss.
Read more Docking at Villefranche-sur-Mer? Here is everything you need to know about making the most of your shore day with a private guide, from Eze and Monaco to Nice and Cap Ferrat.
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Monaco is 2 square kilometres and most people leave feeling like they missed something. They did. Here is how to spend a day there properly, from the old town above the harbour to the Grand Prix circuit.
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