La Fête Nationale celebrating the 1789 French Revolution is one of the biggest holidays in France, with a popular military parade and flyover on the Champs-Elysées and an evening of fireworks and music at the Eiffel Tower. But there are many more events...
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It’s hard enough fining a hotel that fulfills the three ideal requirements of location, price and comfort, but then you have to worry about exactly which room you’re going to get (unless of course you book the Shangri-La’s eponymous...
I love taking photos while walking around Paris on tours or during a morning run. These photos were originally posted this week on my Instagram and Twitter accounts. Come follow me!
A reader kindly forwarded me an article published this week in the Huffington Post, contributed by a Condé Nast Traveler writer, with titled “There Is A Secret Apartment At The Top Of The Eiffel Tower” (sic re capitalization). Misleading and full of errors...
Paris is the perfect city for celebrating la vie en deux, with all of the requisite clichés covered.
I've been trying to convince one of my tour clients to get an Eiffel Tower tattoo, but so far I've had no takers. And considering how obsessed some people are with this Dame de Fer (in this case referring to said Tower, not Margaret Thatcher), and also how I...
Here is the entire 34 minute Bastille Day fireworks show put on by the City of Paris (mairiedeparis) at the Jardins du Trocadéro behind the Eiffel Tower. This year’s show had the theme: “From Broadway to Paris” You can see the shorter stop...
Every decade the Eiffel Tower needs repainting. Some photos of the brave workers hanging from the iron beams with paint buckets!
To celebrate the French presidency of the European Union this year, the Eiffel Tower is lit up with blue lights and golden stars (just for the summer).


