Copying the Rive Gauche’s riverside playground, a new flower-filled leisure area has opened on the north bank. Perfect for a balade and a verre de vin It’s right in the heart of Paris, but the newest section of the Parc Rives de Seine is easily missed by visitors hunting out the well-known landmarks of the…

A cast of 1,500 reenacts 2,000 years of history in just 90 minutes in a show of Olympic-opening-ceremony proportions dubbed ‘an epic tale of England’ An outdoor live show that zips through 2,000 years of English history, with appearances from the Venerable Bede, Boudica, William the Conqueror, Cardinal Wolsey, William Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria,…