Paris apartment rentals are wonderful, but… their damn staircases. It is a pretty staircase though, but we’ve seen too much of it from our top floor apartment. Baron Haussmann’s project from 1853 until 1870 under Napoleon III was to widen the streets and narrow alleyways into boulevards was followed by construction of modern apartment buildings … Read more
Paris, sigh… We’re at the end of our two week stay so it’s time for some Paris reflections and to share some Paris travel tips. No destination so far on our yearlong grand tour has put an exclamation point onto what we are trying to achieve more than Paris. Paris really is a series of … Read more
A night getting your kicks at the Moulin Rouge in Paris’ red-light district, Pigalle, is a must-do experience for many travellers visiting Paris if the nightly long lines on Boulevard Clichy are any indication. It certainly wasn’t our first trip to Paris – we’d been visiting Paris since way back in 1999 and wrote a … Read more
In part one of our Eating Out in Paris posts, I considered why it’s so hard to get a good meal in Paris these days. This time, Lara and I are going to review some of the places we ate at during our two-week stay so you know where you can get a great meal … Read more
Paris is, for many, the heart of modern cuisine and is often called one of the best eating cities in the world. The problem is that today eating out in Paris reminds us that it’s just one of the best dining cities and not the best dining city in the world anymore. The truth is … Read more