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Hotel near our apartment

People are always asking if we can recommend a…

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10 new questions I’d ask if I…

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And the Dollar keeps climbing

Whether with the economy, it’s a “good” time for…

Tokyo on the Seine
Tokyo on the Seine

There has always been a long history of love…

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Climbing wall on Seine? Really in Paris?…

Wall and rock climbing in Paris, along the banks…

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Ten incredible bridge walks – Pont des…

I agree and just minutes from our apartment so…

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Other off-the-beaten track tour ideas

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We will be in Paris next week. I can hardly stand the long times between being there, the…

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The rue de Vaugirard is not as romanticized as some other streets in the 6th and 7th so…

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1) Le Fumoir a tart café with book lined walls and an eclectic mix of indie Parisians and…

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PARIS: The traders sell an array of bush meat: monkey carcasses, smoked anteater, even preserved porcupine. But it…

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Two ladies in Camelot.…. Who knew… Just read in the Vanity Fair article of how the 1963 American…

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5 Best nightclubs in Paris, France

By39vwpadminDec 4, 2009

There was a time when I actually stayed out ’til 4AM at Chez Castel (now very passé) and…

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Alert 12/2/09: Many Paris museums closed due to strike

By39vwpadminDec 2, 2009

PARIS — On a gray, drizzly day just made for a Paris museum visit, workers at the city’s…

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Sarkozy, the Left and the reburial of Camus at the Pantheon

By39vwpadminNov 26, 2009

Imagine a conservative President in the United States embracing a leftist intellectual figure (or several) in order to…

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Tokyo is the new Paris, says Michelin

By39vwpadminNov 18, 2009

So say the revered gastronomes at the Michelin Guide, who have awarded three stars to 11 restaurants in…

french macarons

Touring “The macarons of Europe”

By39vwpadminNov 2, 2009

Again the Patisserie AOKI below our apartment gets the highest marks: Patisserie Sadaharu AOKI 35 rue de Vaugirard…