As my friend explained this new "product" to me, I thought for sure my French was getting worse. But no, it turns out there really is a new type of shellfish, that has just celebrated its official launch! Of course, the shellfish itself is not new. The crepidula...
Driving in France can be a bit intimidating. Driving in Paris can be more than intimidating. Here are a few pointers to help you get used to the new rules and customs: Don't. Don't even think about driving in Paris. What is the point? The metro is so convenient and...
One of my recent guests at Les Miroirs du Marais made the most fantastic amateur-but-you-could-have-fooled-me video, which includes some footage inside the apartment at the start and end of this whirlwind Paris tour. I guarantee this will be the best-spent 4 minutes...
The French spoken by the French is not the French you learned in high school. Real life French is riddled with argot, or slang. But do not despair, there are two pieces of good news. First, you don’t need to speak argot. In fact, with limited exceptions (slang that is...
I first heard about The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure from Paris Book Club, and I immediately pre-ordered a paperback on Amazon. My father was visiting a week or two later and told me he was reading an excellent book that he thought I would like, that in fact he...
Our traveler has quadriplegia, but that's not going to stop her from moving to Paris this summer. It's just a twist in the plot like any other obstacle she may encounter in moving to a new country and dealing with a new culture: it gives her more to write about! Our...
Rarely does an anglophone spend more than a few days in Paris without venturing over to its most famous expat bookshop, and perhaps the most famous expat shop in the world, Shakespeare & Co. Jeffrey Mercer wandered over to Shakespeare & Co. in the early days...
Any expat who spends enough time in France will little by little start appropriating some of the French mannerisms, mentalities and phrases--even when speaking in English! At last, author Shari Leslie Segall has addressed the question of when have you traveled so far...
Since I have been managing my apartment rentals myself, one question has, surprisingly, come up several times already: How far is your apartment from the center of Paris? I never know quite how to respond to this question. What do you mean by the center of Paris? What...
This is my 300th post since I started this blog in the Spring of 2011. So I thought I would take this opportunity to share a few statistics.... In just short of 3 years: 46,870 different people have visited the site I have uploaded 1,494 unique images to the site...
