By Isabelle Brigout on Monday 3 January 2022, 05:26 - Green hotels
The atoll of Laamu, on which is settled the Six Senses resort has been declared Hope Spot by Mission Blue, founded by the American oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle. The international non-profit organization aims to help to the protection of at least 30% of the surface of the oceans by 2030, whereas it was only 1% in 2009.
By Isabelle Brigout on Saturday 1 January 2022, 06:24 - Heritage
Inspired by the Orient-Express, the Golden Mountain Pullman Express has been put into circulation in 1931. Revived in 2005, the train has a car with a wine cellar to allow Swiss vintage wine tastings. Meals can be served on-board by order and reservation only.
By Isabelle Brigout on Wednesday 29 December 2021, 06:52 - Organic food
The De Sousa champagne is organic and biodynamic certified. The brand has put online videos describing the manufacturing process of its champagne in sign language and will offer guided visits of its cellars also in sign language.
By Isabelle Brigout on Wednesday 22 December 2021, 06:02 - Heritage
The château de Versailles offers nightly visits of the King and Queen's appartements, the Galerie des Glaces and the reception rooms animated by actors, dancers, singers, magicians, musicians and fencers in the atmosphere of the festivities at the royal court of Versailles. Children are welcome.
By Isabelle Brigout on Monday 20 December 2021, 17:34 - Organic food
The committed pastry chef Benoît Castel has partnered with the designer Matali Crasset to invent an organic yule log looking like an African totem: this unique and unusual creation links the traditional family fest to the sculpture, set up in the centre of the village, which federates and unites communities.
By Isabelle Brigout on Thursday 16 December 2021, 05:02 - Organic food
For Christmas, LA.BR offers tea flowers hand-braided by craftsmen in the Yunnan Province of China in a box with an original lithography by Marta Abbott, painted with pigments found in nature. The cases are manufactured in a limited edition.
By Isabelle Brigout on Monday 13 December 2021, 06:11 - Organic food
For the festive season, Ruinart offers twenty magnum bottles of Champagne in a limited and numbered edition, whose second skin packagings have been sculpted by the artist Antonin Anzil. Each piece depicts a part of the historic vineyard that has just been converted to agroforestry.
