Joyeux Noel from Paris Christmas Eve in Paris is busy and festive. Rue de Rivoli and the department stores are heaving with people, wrapped up against the winter’s cold and rushing about doing last minute shopping for presents and food.!!! Tourists wander around in awe, snapping up photos of window displays and Christmas lights and …
A girl can predict the way a day is going to pan out when she has a good hair day. The temperature lifted slightly and so did the air pollution, although I couldn’t tell by looking at the brilliant blue winter’s day sky. In an effort to keep their clients informed about what is …
Parisians love their Sunday brunch, a long leisurely affair that can last for hours and can keep you fueled until dinner time. I experienced a number of firsts during the course of a long but lovely day today. Not that it is unusual when I am in Paris for this to occur, there …
Call me Paris Adèle, but don’t call me a trainspotter. However I do have a penchant for unusual or unique metro entrances and because of this, Saint-Georges was where my walk began today. Saint-Georges metro entrance sits in the elegant circular, Place de la Saint-Georges in the area known as La Nouvelle Athènes; The New Athens, in the 9th arrondissement. …
THE FRANTIC METRO STATIONS Chatelet and Hotel de Ville were almost void of people on Christmas morning and when I approached Boulevard Haussmann to visit the large department stores, Galleries Lafayette and Printemps, it was equally as quiet. If I said that I woke at the crack of dawn this morning, that would be lying, although I …