by Jan Sevilla | Sep 26, 2015 | ESCAPES
From the Pyrenees to the jagged coastal coves of Costa Brava, Spain’s Catalonia stirs inspiration and saccharine summer dreams. IT was hard to say when summer arrived in the Alt Empordà, the upper part of Catalonia, tucked away in the northeast corner of...
by Jan Sevilla | Apr 10, 2015 | ESCAPES
The French Wine Country is a fairytale landscape of chateaus and idyllic vineyards. Bordeaux invites everyone to enjoy a tipple and dream altogether. In many ways a story can always be written and, at times be told. If I have to start mine, I would like to...
by Jan Sevilla | Jan 26, 2015 | ESCAPES
From a rocky gorge to Spain’s oldest bullfighting ring, Ronda is not just a place to see monumental architecture but also dreams and dramas. Through the large glass paneled windows blurred by the cold mist of the Andalusian winter, the clip-clop of well-shod...
by Jan Sevilla | Aug 10, 2014 | ESCAPES
High above the French Alps and an arm’s reach from the Swiss border, Lake Annecy draws all crowds and artists alike in pursuit of a restorative escape. Either he picked up the wrong colors or has probably run out of paint; Paul Cézanne, the most...