I’ve got a few favorite French websites for all of you Anglophones who don’t fear the language and those of you who want to get some practice reading French.
Insider Tips
Tips on finding a rental apartment in Paris.
Some precautions and hints on how to be safe can help cut down on the chances of you or your family hanging out in the Prefecture de Police during your stay.
Haute Couture is here, and it's a uniquely Parisian event (whereas Prêt-à-Porter, a.k.a. Ready-to-Wear, has shows in Milan, New York, London, and Paris)...
I’ve rewritten this article about five times now. It’s late. There are no links. It’s not what most people would consider 'light entertainment'. But the...
While big happenings in Paris don’t tend to make it onto the international news programs, you all may have recently seen news about our little wind storm.
We Luv UGC Going to the movies in a foreign country can be both fun and amusing before you even get to sit down. Paris has its own way of doing everything, and...
Ho! Ho! Ho! Joyeux Noël! It was flurrying again in Paris last night. Then it got windy and the flurries turned to cold rain. Winter is here, no doubt, and it’s...
A shopper’s dream, Paris, and the holidays can make even the steeliest of natives all giddy with delight. The lights, the decorations, the delicate wrappings...
Wednesday, December 1st was the twelfth annual World AIDS Awareness Day, just in case you missed all of the red ribbons. Even here in Paris, we are not free...
Paris is a very pedestrian-intensive town. I grew up in a place where people got into their cars in their garage attached to their house, then drove to a large...
Back where I grew up, shopping for groceries was a chore. Get in the car, drive five miles, find a parking space within a mile, walk up and down the aisles for...
