This morning on my run I was thrilled to see a dozen municipal workers removing padlocks one by one from the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, formerly known as Passerelle Solférino (the pedestrian bridge connecting the Tuileries...
Author - Heather Stimmler
American-born travel journalist and non-profit media specialist living in Paris since 1995.
In April 2013 I had a very unique tour client, author Mark Sullivan researching the latest detective crime thriller in the "Private" series he co-authors with James Patterson. Almost exactly three years later, Private Paris finally launched on March 15th. Now...
I was with some tour clients last week, and as we crossed from the Avenue George V and across the Place de l’Alma to drive along the Right Bank, one of the kids asks, “What’s that golden Hershey Kiss?” “Oh, that’s a replica...
March 31-April 9Celebrate the arrival of spring at Nuba, on the rooftop of Les Docks en Seine! Their Casa Sunsets Festival is a program of nightly entertainment, from 5pm-6am (and Sunday brunch), featuring live music and DJs. Free entry (dress nicely and get...
Back in the fall Parisians welcomed a rather unique vessel on the Seine, the three-masted schooner La Boudeuse, constructed in Holland in 1916. The 46-meter ship with 13 sails has explored all seven of the world’s seas and has a fascinating history:...
There's a new machine at the Place de la Bastille that promises to take you on an immersive virtual reality trip into the past to see the square as it looked in the 15th and 18th centuries when it was still dominated by the Bastille fortress. If you've got a...
The winning baguette for 2016 might have come from a bakery in the 6th arrondissement, but not only are 80% of the winners on the Left Bank (go Rive Gauche!), the largest number of them, three out of ten, are from the 13th arrondissement. My neighborhood!
It's hard for today’s American expatriates to fathom the lives of our forbearers who lived in France before the internet, commercial airlines, the telephone, or even the telegraph, completely cut off from their homeland for months at a time. When I...
In This Issue: * American Broadway with a French Touch * Studying in France: A Debt-Free Diploma * Stitching Up Paris: Meet the Local Kniterati * How to Avoid Travel Writing Clichés * The Paris Travel Writing Workshop Team * Creepy Medical History Museums *...
A huge thank you to everyone who helped me raise €1114 for Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), to the MSF volunteers who let me check my bag at their welcome tent instead of standing in the long lines, and to the weather...
I had heard good things about Jane Drotter’s East Parisian restaurant Yard, so I finally made a reservation to check it out last week.
How someone who knows nothing about the world of knitting, sewing, notions and needlecraft discovers the international "kniterati" and the New Zealand expats who have written the definitive insider's guide to the fiber arts community in Paris.
