Whether you’re visiting or living in Paris, there’s plenty to see and do during the holidays to enjoy the festive season from mid-November through early January.
Tag - Christmas
If you want to experience a real French Christmas market, don't miss Strasbourg's famous Marché de Noël.
When you’ve gone around the merry-go-round of life as many times as I have, all you really want for Christmas is a thrill. Fact is, I don’t need more things (though a cattle prod would make a nice stocking-stuffer; I’d use it on those people...
Last weekend I went on the monthly Ile-de-France hike led by Abbey Bookshop owner Brian Spence, and we got to make a short detour to visit the Musée Vivant du Chemin de Fer, or Living Train Museum.
If you’re in Paris during the holidays, far from your family, no reason to feel sorry for yourself. Take advantage of your lack of “family obligations” and help out those in need in your adopted community. If there are any I have missed...
Traveling to France is exciting anytime of the year, but going for Christmas is a vacation you won't soon forget.
As nice as it is to go home for the holidays, if you're stuck in Paris and feeling homesick, there's no better place than Christmas at Disneyland Paris.
I recorded this short video of the Christmas Midnight Mass Procession at Notre Dame de Paris on December 24, 2012.
Author's Note: I wrote this story in 48 hours for the Abbey Bookshop Holiday Party (December 11, 2009). They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In this case it was just easier to start with a pre-existing best-seller and a well-loved...
Fouquet’s and Louis Vuitton on the Champs-Elysées The holiday lights in Paris are now up in all of the major streets around Paris. They all have their own unique theme, with the Champs Elysées going for the “European Union Presidency” theme...
You don’ have to be a guest at the city’s famous palace hotels to enjoy some of their unique holiday atmosphere, the elaborate Christmas decorations — and the certainty that they’re not closed nor packed beyond belief like Ladurée...
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 not hard to try ignoring this weather with a little holiday fun. Mr. Hall and I are spending our...
