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TravelAwaits May.2.2021 So, you finally booked your dream trip to Paris and are probably counting the days until you fly to the City of Light. The next thing you have to figure out is how to prepare for your maiden voyage — what to bring, what not to bring, what to know beforehand, what to know while you are there, whether you should have euros ahead of time, and a host of other things.  I moved from New York to Paris permanently in 2005 and made at least a dozen trips before I moved here. Since I’ve been living here, I’ve given thousands of walking tours to American and international ...

EasyMile raises $66M for its autonomous people-and-goods shuttles We may still be a long way off from Level 5, fully self-driving cars on the open road, but companies building autonomous vehicles and shuttles for specific uses within closed-campus deployments say they are on their way to commercial operations and are raising money to get there. In the latest development, a startup out of Toulouse, France, called EasyMile — which builds shuttles for transporting both people and goods — has closed a Series B of €55 million ($66 million). The funding is being led by Searchlight Capital Par...

Timanfaya National Park and the volcanoes in Lanzarote The austere, otherworldly landscape of Lanzarote is shaped by hundreds of volcanic cones, many of them dating back to a series of devastating eruptions in the 1730s. For six years from 1730 to 1736, volcanic activity covered 200 square km of fertile farmland with layers of ash and lava, destroying up to 20 villages and causing most of the island’s inhabitants to flee to nearby islands. Part of this area now forms the Timanfaya National Park, one of the most popular attractions in Lanzarote. The parish priest at Yaiza wrote in his diary...

Food in Lanzarote – 25 dishes and drinks you’ll want to try! The food in Lanzarote is a melting pot of delicious gastronomy that is partly Spanish but uniquely Canary Islands. Culinary influences draw on the cactus and palms of Africa, chilli and potatoes introduced from South America, seafood and tapas of modern day Spain and the spicy flavours brought by merchant ships passing through the Canaries. Homely soups and stews are rooted in the resourceful peasant farming of an island that has very little water. But the real bounty comes from the sea, with an amazing array of fresh fish and s...