Author: Daniele Auvray

Born and raised in Paris(FRANCE), where after successful literary studies she attended a famous Art school: "Arts appliques a l'industrie " or(Arts applied to industry), which allowed her to have excellent training in all aspects of art techniques before opting to master and graduate as an advertising designer and photographer. She then worked at a Paris based Ad agency before embarking on a trip of a lifetime traveling by road from Paris to New Delhi, which she documented with Photographs that were later published in a Photo Magazine together with a brief story. However, this experience triggered a switch in her career as she decided then to become a full-time Travel writer and Photographer...Her stories and Photographs have since then been published in many well-known publications, notably the US, Europe, Canada, and Japan where she has been residing for the past 40 years now...She speaks fluently besides her native tongue (French), Spanish, English, Portuguese and Japanese...Published in VOGUE (FRANCE), Le Monde (FRANCE), Gault Millau (FRANCE), Asahigraph (Asahi Newspaper magazine)(Japan), Mainichigraph (Mainichi Newspaper magazine)(Japan), ELLE magazine (Japan), Marie Claire magazine (Japan), ELLE-Deco magazine(Japan); several inflight magazines(JAL Air France, Air Canada). Her corporate clients have included prestigious names such as Air France, Sony, and Carnival cruises...She specialized in deluxe travel and food, as well as special reporting.

A French Alps Chic Chalet in Courchevel

In the land of the griffin, everything is possible. Just make a wish and it will come true. It’s magical! Or so it seemed to Mrs. Raymonde Fenestraz, a native of Courchevel, who embarked on building the chalet of her childhood dream, a pure fantasy of her imagination! She had set her mind to have her […]

Japan’s Boxed Happiness – “O-Bento”

Perhaps it goes back to our childhood, when we were happy with very little things, like tiny boxes and the secrets we thought we might uncover in those mysterious containers. A box was also very often a gift given to us by someone very dear, like our mother or father, a brother or a sister. […]

Ode to a Tokyo Garden

Dream or reality? Is reality nothing but a dream? A pure product of our imagination? An illusion? The line between the two is often blurred. On the eastern edge of the Musashino plains, where much of western Tokyo lies, is the Sekiguchi Plateau, a scenic spot famous for its wild Camellias, since the fourteenth century. During the Edo period […]

Yokohama on My Mind

Formerly a small fishing village on the Tokaido road, Yokohama, now Japan’s second largest city, was first made a treaty port in 1859. Then followed an influx of traders, especially Chinese and British, making it the biggest port in Asia by the early 1900.

A Lemon Festival on the French Riviera

Each February the city of Menton, on the French Riviera, rejoices with festivities that can baffle even the most consummate of travelers as well as its own inhabitants.

Spirited Away to Tottori

It’s a mere 80mn flight between Tokyo Haneda airport and Yonago, yet a world apart. And, from the moment you land, the mood is set. You have reached “Manga Kingdom”!

Las Alamandas: Color Me Pink

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]ale yellow paths, decorated with stone mosaics wind through gardens fragrant with the scent of gardenias, bougainvillea, and jasmine as well as yellow Alamandas flowers for which the resort is named. Owner Isabel Goldsmith who inherited the place from her grandfather, simply fell in love with this remote paradise and its perfect half-mile beach long, […]

Oita Encounters

[dropcap]V[/dropcap]enturing outside of the usual tourist trail (Tokyo,Osaka or Kyoto) can prove to be vastly rewarding in Japan, for the inquisitive traveler. A simple visit, for instance to Oita prefecture on the island of Kyushu reveals lesser known little wonders. In Oita city, a stop at the newly built art museum (OPAM) is a must […]