Favorite place in Paris: Pompidou Center. One of my visits I saw an amazing exhibit on Alfred Hitchock’s films. Oh how the French love American filmmakers!

I was in front of the American Embassy watching the evacuation when the second plane hit on 9/11. That was a moment in history.

My favorite place in the countryside is Moulin Bregeon, a little inn in a town called Linieres Bouton near Saumur (about 90 minutes by speed train from Paris). The owner Jonathan Robinson is an American artist and it’s a wonderful, hospitable sanctuary in the countryside with excellent French peasant food and lively conversation. www.moulinbregeon.com/
If you go – tell him Cherie sent you!