The church on the right is St-Sulpice, the Louvre is the huge building to the upper left, with the Tuileries gardens. The Tour de Montparnasse is that ugly...
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I was taking a photo of this plant (don’t ask why…the plant is no longer with us, R.I.P.), and Lena the ham wouldn’t get out of the way. The...
Thomas, Nicole, et Heather Thursday night was actually relatively warm, so I crimped my hair (!!) and went out with some friends to see Nicolas Ullmann’s...
The horizontal sleet of Easter weekend got the best of me (I was out giving walking tours), and I’ve been convalescing in this bed for so long I think my...
As I’ve said before, I don’t really do cafés. I mean, I like them and all, but I don’t have a favorite where I spend my afternoons...
Today I got an email that touches on a subject I’ve been asked about often, so I thought I’d share the response with all of you: “Heather, My...
There may be intermittant snowing and raining, sun and wind, and absolutely freezing, but that’s how you know Spring has arrived! Well, that and the...
There’s something so clichéd about the American writer in Paris scribbling in a Moleskine journal on a café terrace. But I buy them anyway...
42 rue Vaugirard, 6th.
Tel 01 53 10 36 50.
The magic is in the details at this darling boutique hotel facing Luxembourg Gardens...
French and Israeli flags over the Opera Garnier If you happened to notice the Israeli flags all over Paris this week, it’s because Israel is the honored...
Someone emailed me today asking about tecktonik dancing in Paris. Personally, it doesn’t look very different to what we were doing at techno clubs in the...
Bars open and close all the time in Paris, that’s just the reality of the big city. Which is probably why places like Harry’s New York Bar and...


