This morning I woke early to get in a short run before 10am and had my first police “control” since the lockdown as I was crossing the Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir to Parc de Bercy. With the online attestation it was super quick; the officer just scanned my...
Author - Heather Stimmler
American-born travel journalist and non-profit media specialist living in Paris since 1995.
The first strawberries of the season have arrived at my local coop supermarket, and I’m enjoying them so much I feel like I’m breaking a lockdown rule!
"We are gradually curbing the epidemic," said Jerome Salomon (French Health Minister). However, "if we can hope for a plateau (in the pandemic) it is a very high plateau and we must remain extremely careful to redouble our collective and united efforts," in...
It came to no one’s surprise that the French government announced that the lockdown is going to last longer than the original April 15th date given two weeks ago. They can’t say right now how long it will last, but most assume it will be several more weeks...
Day 24 in Paris during the coronavirus lockdown, the last lunch run for everyone (and that's probably a good thing, I swallowed at least one bug today...spring has sprung!)
Despite a lot of consternation at the unruly Parisians strolling around in the sunshine over the weekend, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner announced this morning that "the French are among the best in the world at respecting the confinement...
After a long three weeks in confinement, we all need a bit of levity. Today's post is a "Sans Bad News Zone".
After sending out my April Secrets of Paris newsletter yesterday where I asked for all of YOU to share your confinement stories with me. This morning I woke to find I’ve received over 50 emails from around the world! I spent the morning reading your messages...
Thanks to everyone who has been following and commenting on these daily updates over the past 20 days. Your encouragement keeps me going even though there have definitely been days when I would have preferred to just curl up with a good book and ignore the...
When I wrote the last newsletter one month ago, there were only 200 cases of coronavirus in France, including just three in Paris. So much has happened all over the world since then, I can’t imagine there’s anyone reading this who isn’t affected by the...
On this 19th day of the Coronavirus lockdown in Paris I thought it might be helpful to give you a list of some useful links, whether you want to make yourself useful by helping others, or simply entertain yourself while helping out by staying INSIDE.
It's the 18th day since Paris began shutting down due to the coronavirus measures, although most people will tell you it's Day 16 of the Lockdown...who's right?
