We are looking for a housemate in Brittany! For those of you following this blog for a while now, you know how much I love Brittany. You can see all my posts on this beautiful region here. We have a four-bedroom house in the very center of an adorable town (Baden -...
Linda Hervieux, a fellow American living in Paris, journalist and photographer, recently finished her impressive first book, Forgotten: The Untold Story of D Day's Black Heroes, at Home and At War. Not many first-time authors are told their work is "utterly...
The Bibliothèque Mazarine (The Mazarin Library) is a 17th century library, the oldest public library in France. It houses an impressive collection of manuscripts and rare books, including a Gutenberg Bible. The library is in the center of Paris, in the 6th...
Happy New Year from Paris Weekender! Bonne Année ! A reminder: my gift to you this holiday season is 10% off any 2016 bookings of my Paris apartment that are made before January 15, 2016! Best wishes for 2016!
Happy Holidays from Paris Weekender! My gift to you this holiday season (and to celebrate this, my 400th post!): 10% off any 2016 bookings of my Paris apartment that are made before January 15, 2016. Best wishes for a happy holiday season to you and your family!...
Terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle-Roissy has recently expanded to add a series of "M" gates, and the new building is impressive. There are several coffee shops, lounge chairs, shops and even a little (free!) museum with exhibits borrowed from Paris's well-known...
You still have a few more weeks to catch the Osiris, Egypt's Sunken Mysteries exhibit at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris's 5th arrondissement, not far from Notre Dame Cathedral. The exhibit runs though January 31, 2016. Why "sunken" mysteries? Because most of the...
This is the fifth and final installment of my posts detailing my Corsica & Provence trip this summer. A quick recap: we started in Bonifacio (Southern Corsica), then spent a few nights in the mountains of central Corsica, then three nights in Bastia (Northern...
It's been a few years since I reposted this so here we go. It's article that was first published in the International Herald Tribune in 1952, while Buchwald was a journalist for the IHT in Paris, and it was reprinted by the IHT on many Thanksgivings for many years, by...
Thank you so much to everyone who checked in last Friday and these past ten days to be sure my friends and I were OK. I was in New York last Friday so well out of harm's way, and thankfully all my friends and the family renting my apartment this past week are all...
