I Love Paris

Paris is always a beautiful, sparkling city to visit, but in the winter, it is even more special. Not only are the crowds significantly smaller, but airfare can be much less expensive as well. It belongs to the native Parisians in winter, meaning that you can get a truly authentic experience — and [...]

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As mentioned in the last post, you will never have an easier time of learning French.  I also mentioned I had five years of it in high school.  I plan on going to Paris for my honeymoon, and guess what?  I do not remember all that much from my high school classes, so one goal [...]

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This is a new day. To really experience life in a foreign country, we need to let go of the old tourist stereotype of days gone by, when it was perfectly okay to go to another country and yammer away in a mix of your own language and a pidgin version of the language [...]

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Travelers to Paris tend to make one very big mistake: they underestimate the amount of pictures they are going to want to take during their stay.
Sure, you might be saying, but there are all kinds of little stores around which will allow you to buy as many disposable cameras as you need. That is [...]

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With the premiere of Julie and Julia, lots of people are becoming interested in cooking, and that brings up an interesting point.  While visiting the museums and the sites when you are in Paris are practically must dos, the conventional excursions are definitely not the only ones you can enjoy.
If you have an interest in [...]

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When you look around Paris, there is so much to see and so much beauty, it is very hard to take it all in … however, if you are looking for a particular place or sight that you should be seeing, it should be the Luxembourg Gardens.  These gardens were actually open only to the [...]

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When you are looking for something different and something that not everyone has done – you need to make sure that you book yourself into an O Chateau Wine Tasting.  Paris is known for their beautiful and awesome wine and when you partake in an O Chateau Wine Tasting, I can assure you that you [...]

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When you are looking for something to do in Paris – what is the first thing that you think about?  Opera!  Going to the opera is something that is a favorite past time for many, many different Paris-dwellers and when you are on vacation in Paris, it is very important that you experience everything that [...]

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Paris is one of the most stylish, avant garde fashion capitals in all the world.  It lives and breathes haute couture.  Fashion Week there is truly a thing to behold … but do you know why they call it Fashion Week?  Because it does not happen all the time.
You may feel like you need to [...]

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Now, this next series of post is not meant to be culture-centric, as it were, but the majority of us have to be aware of the stereotypes Americans have about Parisians — and the stereotypes Americans perceive that Parisians have about us.  It is vital to scrap those stereotypes — and to remember that if [...]

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