My France Favourites: Sylvia Davis
Sylvia Davis is a business and lifestyle writer with a globetrotting career that carried her across four continents until France became her permanent home in 2004. She actively scans the cultural landscape as events and arts correspondent for France Today. Here she shares her picks for travel in France, along with top picks for museums in Paris.
What’s your perfect day in Paris?
Coffee and croissant with a magazine, morning stroll along the Jardins de Luxembourg, light lunch with friends at a little bistro, afternoon at the Pompidou, walking dinner at l’As du Falafel, then collapse in a corner at Shakespeare & Company and browse books til midnight.
Your favourite restaurant in Paris?
La créperie in Rue des Canettes in the 6th. Small, friendly; serves copious galettes.
The most sublime meal you’ve ever had in France?
My wedding dinner at L’Abbaye in La Colle-sur-Loup near Nice.
Best travel memory in France?
Cannes in May, it was sea, beautiful people and the marché du film. Sunny memories.
Favourite French region to travel?
I love the warmth of the people in deepest Haute-Marne.
Top museum in France?
It’s a tie for the Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo right now.
Favourite French film?
Être et avoir (“To Be and to Have”)
Boutiques where you shop during the semi-annual soldes?
McArthur Glenn designer outlets in Troyes.
A destination in France that you’re dying to visit?
Tip for first-time visitors to France?
Dive into the mosh pit. The French will catch you.
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