My first book of 2016 was A Gift from Brittany, by Marjorie Price. It's a true story, the account of the young American's own life in southern Brittany in the early 1960s, back when modernity had not yet reached these rural communities and when there were no other...
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...
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...
Paris is known for many things but unfortunately among them is the ridiculous quantity of un-scooped dog poop on the sidewalks. "Seriously, am I worth €35?" So what is the city doing about this? Well, not much. But they have launched a new campaign to spread the word...
In 1965, Eleanor Clark won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for her work, The Oysters of Locmariaquer, which paints a vivid picture of this small town and of its inhabitants whose lives revolve around the oyster cultivating industry. Please know that...
Twenty years ago, a small group dreamed of reconstructing an exact replica of General Lafayette’s 18th-century ship called the Hermione. Today, the majestic vessel is the largest and most authentically built Tall Ship in the last 150 years. The Hermione has set sail...
For readers living in or visiting New York this summer, Films on the Green starts this Friday, May 29th! Films on the Green is an outdoor French film festival co-sponsored every year by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, FACE Foundation and the City of New...
