Spring is very reluctantly creeping into Paris.  While we don’t yet have warm weather, we do have sunny skies… for now.  But there are lots of signs of the warmth […]

Public buses can be a great way to see Paris:  you can easily (and cheaply) get from point A to point B while also seeing the sights. One of my […]

  I have no idea why it took us an entire year to make the two-hour train trip to London.  In fairness, we planned two previous trips which, for various […]

In late December, my mom and I snagged cheap tickets to Orleans, a 45-minute train ride away from Paris.  We knew nothing about the city except that Joan of Arc […]

I’ve become very interested in the cultural divide between French and Americans:  how we perceive each other stereotypically and how that plays out in daily life. French people are lazy […]

When we moved here, I was desperately afraid that all the wonders of Paris would pass me by:   I’d end up sitting on the sofa, scarfing down baguettes while […]