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Welcome to my blog where I document my adventures in Paris and beyond. Bon séjour!
Welcome to my blog where I document my adventures in Paris and beyond. Bon séjour!
All in weekend
The city of Paris gives you the opportunity to visit many of it's landmarks for free during the first Sunday of each month...
Yesterday, Steve and I had to get out of the apartment.
We decided to venture out to the streets of Paris. We picked up a few groceries from the supermarché along with a baguette from the boulangerie. There were so many more people out than we anticipated. And since they were making an effort to enjoy the beautiful day, we decided to as well...
Happy Halloween my friends! In Paris, Halloween is well-known, but not well-celebrated. Save for a few parties and costumes, it is not the occasion that we Americans are used to.
There is no trick-or-tricking. The multitude of costume parties are few and far between. Costume shops sell scary costumes, almost exclusively. And restaurants and cafes serve lots of potiron (pumpkin) soup.
One thing that does fits into both the Parisian and American ideal of Halloween is...
How we spent a nice fall weekend in Paris.
This weekend, we moved around the city quite a bit, from Rue de Pot de Fer in the Latin Quarter for a few bieres up to Montmartre for fireworks and wine and back to our brand new apartment in the Marais - mostly by bike. Both of us finally signed up for Velib, the bike share program in Paris (only 30€ per year), and it turned out to be...
