Riviera

Many Brits are booking staycations this summer to avoid the hassle of travelling abroad and any uncertainties around air travel with the ongoing jet fuel crisis. With the Strait of Hormuz being closed since the start of the conflict in…

By SARA LAWRENCE Published: 08:05 EDT, 13 May 2025 | Updated: 08:05 EDT, 13 May 2025 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- Under a Riviera Moon by…

Sugar daddies are wolfing caviar blinis. Bottles of Moet are flowing in nightclubs. All perfectly normal in Sopot on the Polish Riviera.This seaside town has had a South of France feel ever since Frenchman Jean Haffner founded a sauna…

SOCIAL HISTORYONCE UPON A TIME WORLD by Jonathan Miles (Atlantic £22, 456pp)What Matisse described as 'the luminosity of the Cote d'Azur' always attracted 'foreigners with spending power'.Queen Victoria, for example, stayed at Menton,…