If you have ever driven a car in Paris or know someone who does, you probably know how parking can be a costly nightmare, especially if you don’t have a residence permit to park for extended periods of time on the street. After dozens of parking tickets and...
Tag - driving in Paris
Traffic is dense, parking is expensive and almost impossible to find in the center (hotels rarely have private parking), and it’s not a very nice way to see the city. And then there's that vary peculiar way that Parisians drive.
Parking in August is no longer free anywhere in Paris, but you can now use any phone to pay for parking.
It always starts with the best of intentions. There will be a guest or two staying over, and after dinner we’ll retire to the living room. During a pause in the conversation, I will raise a finger in a sham of spontaneity, and cry out, “Say, why don’t we go...
First there was Velib’, the municipal bike-sharing program. Then came Autolib’ with its cute electric cars. Now the City of Paris is now beta-testing a new program called CityScoot, a self-service electric scooter rental program scheduled to roll out in 2016...
I tested it out the Autolib this weekend, and maybe I'm infatuated with new love, but I'm already hooked...
What happened when Swampy -- my car -- was unceremoniously towed away one day. Operation Rescue Swampy!
For those of you with cars in Paris, note that a few laws have changed in 2011 concerning parking. The good news is that you can now park at night in some “livraison” spaces from 8pm-7am, and all day on Sundays and holidays.
Enjoy the view from the back of a scooter riding along the Boulevard St-Michel from the Sorbonne to the Quai des Grands Augustins, filmed one fine spring evening…sorry about the shakiness, it was recorded with my mobile phone!
Either my driver was in training for the double-decker tour bus circuit, or he was just making everyone's day a bit nicer by interacting with the passengers on what's usually a pretty boring commute through Paris...
