Recently, I sat down with Isabelle Southgate of Discover Paris with the Kids to learn more about the tours she offers and her vision for her new company. Isabelle at La Belle Hortense The Background After years as a graphic designer specializing in children’s books...
Speaking of New Year's Resolutions... If you live in Paris, it may be time to change up your usual running routes. If you are just visiting, running is a great way to see the city from a different perspective, and to cover more ground. Here is my Top 10 List for...
As I explained last month, I have decided that every month I will post a list of some of my favorite or just the most eye-catching articles, recipes, blogs and other links I have come across in the past month. Some relate to Paris and European travels and some have...
It's almost time for those New Year's Resolutions! I'm not talking about the usual: losing weight, going to the gym more often, being nicer to your neighbors.... I'm talking about your Paris New Year's Resolutions! What restaurants or bars have you been talking...
This year I held the first (to be determined if also the last) Pumpkinfest, otherwise known as "Why your guests will never want to see another pumpkin as long as they live." It was my alternative to a Thanksgiving dinner with friends as I was back in the U.S. for the...
Here is a gift for you! To thank you for reading Paris Weekender in its first year, I have compiled an e-book of my favorite photos from 2011. The e-book includes photos from Paris, day trips from Paris including Giverny and Auvers-sur-Oise, weekend trips in France...
You still have time to catch the Christmas Market on the Champs-Elysées! From 11am until 10:30pm through January 3rd, you can do that last minute Christmas shopping, eat pretzels and crêpes and drink vin chaud (hot wine) to your heart’s content along the famous avenue...
Are you staying in Paris for the holidays? Or are you traveling elsewhere? Are you spending the holidays with family? Or are you using the quiet time in the office to travel somewhere new? From the Highline, Manhattan I was lucky this year to spend the Thanksgiving...
My photo from the Queen's Route in the Vesterålen Islands has been selected as today's Whygo.com's "Photo of the Day"! To see more photos of Norway, see my post from this summer or the Norway gallery of my photo website. The Queen's Route ("Dronningruta" in Norwegian)...
Sometimes it's fun to be a tourist in your own backyard. For four and a half years I have worked one block from Place de l'Etoile (or Place Charles de Gaulle) and the Arc de triomphe. I can even see the Arc de triomphe from many of the windows in our office and yet...
