Did you know that there are free shuttles from central Paris to IKEA? My IKEA bookshelf put to good use There's a shuttle to IKEA Paris Nord (the store you see on the way to CDG Airport) that leaves from Place de Clichy and Gare de l'Est and takes about 40 minutes,...
With all this wet wintery weather in Paris, I thought a little reminder of beach days to come might serve as a welcome break. But this incredible convex beach with turquoise water is not the Caribbean, it's not the Indian Ocean. It's in Brittany! Read my post from a...
There is a new tech service available in Paris, designed to give tourists real-time assistance, on-the-go. The service, via an app, connects a traveler with a "City Helper". This real person will--by phone or chat through the app--answer questions, give...
Two years ago, I wrote about a wonderful book called A Gift from Brittany, by Marjorie Price. It’s the true story of a young American (Marjorie)’s life in the Morbihan, in southern Brittany, in the early 1960s. This is back when modernity had not yet reached these...
I wanted to share a couple of short videos from Lorient's Festival Interceltique this past August: Here is more information on the 2018 festival. Remember, you can bookmark my Vimeo homepage here, see my Brittany album here, my Paris album here and my Maine album...
Earlier this year, I wrote about the week-long biennial boat festival in the last week of May, the Semaine du Golfe, in the Gulf of Morbihan, Brittany. Today I finally uploaded all my videos from this festival, primarily from the spectacular boat parade on the...
I'm just now learning to embed videos in my posts.... so expect more videos going forward! I figured this was a good excuse to repost this video by Libby Blood of Libby Blood Films of my Marais apartment: Marais Apartment Video from Paris Weekender on Vimeo. Please...
**USE CODE WEEKENDER FOR 10% OFF** A new luggage storage company has recently launched in Paris. Stasher provides a number of locations in central Paris where tourists and day-trippers can leave luggage for short periods of time. One of the Paris stash points (photo...
The Festival Interceltique, the largest Celtic music festival in the world, held in Lorient every year, is set for August 3-12, 2018! Lorient street art I was lucky enough to catch the very last night of the festivities last year, as my latest three or so weeks of...
The Richelieu-Louvois Library, part of the French National Library, recently reopened to the public after extensive (ongoing) renovations. You can pay for a tour of the library, but you can also view the famous Salle Ovale (oval reading room) free of charge....
