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Montmartre Photo Contest Winner
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 11 November 2009
Photo by Rod ChapmanThis was one of the hardest contests to judge. All of you sent such wonderful and captivating photos that I caved and decided to have two winners. And the winners are (drumroll please!)......... Rod Chapman, for his...
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World's Largest Ladies Shoe Store at Galeries Lafayette & Manolo Blahnik Spring Preview 2010
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 10 November 2009
To make shoe fanatics jealous, I had the distinct pleasure of attending two major shoe events in the same day a few weeks ago. While I was in Galeries Lafayette having lunch with Lynn,we visited the new ladies shoe department...
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Bottoms Up: The Search for Paris’ Best Cocktails
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 9 November 2009
Despite what Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald might have you believe, Paris has not historically been a cocktail-drinking town. Even today, the traditional pre-dinner drink—the apéritif or more familiar “apéro”—usually takes the form of a glass of champagne, a kir (white wine with a splash of cassis), or a pastis (an anise-flavored liqueur favored by pétanque-playing French gentlemen of a certain age).
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Metro Station of the Month: Abbesses
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 9 November 2009
Abbesses metro is the station for Montmartre. It has one of the only two remaining original Hector Guimard metro entrances in Paris and was named after abbesses of the nearby Dames-de Montmartre abbey. One of the deepest stations in Paris,118...
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Lady in Paris
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
It's a cold morning in Paris. I'm sitting in the Place des Vosges taking advantage of the city's free wi-fi network and feeling rather embarrassed that the French got a city-wide wi-fi network up and running before San Francisco! That aside, I'm loving that I can sit in one of my favorite parks and be on the internet at the same time.
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Lady in the City of Lights
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
November was the first full month I've spent in the UK since I moved here. I'd love to say that it was because I've finally been cured of the travel bug, but the truth is that I was getting my passport renewed.
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Lady in the City of Lights (Part 2)
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
The only thing better than going to Paris for a couple days is going back to Paris for another couple days the next day. While this week's first journey to Paris was a nostalgic trip, the second was most definitely a hedonistic one.
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Lady Works in Paris
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
I love Paris in the summer. I love the warm weather, the endless daylight, the leafy green gardens and parks, and of course, the soldes. Unfortunately, since I moved to London I've had the bad habit of visiting Paris in the dead of winter. And while even wintry Paris has its charms, I couldn't help but feel like I was missing out on something by not vising the city in the summer.
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Paris in Your Pocket
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 6 November 2009
Remember back in the day, when you used to carry around guidebooks and maps as you explored a new destination? The guidebooks were clunky and cumbersome, sometimes as thick as dictionaries. And maps ... well, nothing says "tourist" like the sight of a person standing on a street looking at a big, unfolded map. Nowadays, you can ditch the books and paper and make your way through Paris using the technology in your pocket.
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Best Place to Exchange U.S. Dollars
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 5 November 2009
I most always tell visitors that the best way to change money is to do it with your cash card. Your bank may charge a 3-5 euro fee for the transaction but it is usually the best rate you can...
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My New Math
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 4 November 2009
Justifying a new obsession just takes some creative math.
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Meet Maïa: Your Personal Porcelain Painter in Paris
Blog: Paris By Appointmenty Only - 4 November 2009
It's funny how a deep childhood frustration can become a creative manifesto later in life. Case in point: Maïa, the Paris-based porcelain painter. As a kid, she tried in vain every night to decorate the table with her family's finest, only to be told to return it to the cupboard for the everyday stuff. Now, not only does Maïa set the table with beautiful, eye-popping designs whenever she likes, she's made it her business to make sure that others do too!
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Diary of a Working Mom
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 4 November 2009
Even with her faux pas, La Mom has returned to work in Paris and is loving it.
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Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 4 November 2009
Hey everyone it’s time for another installment of one my favorite games while traveling: grave hunting. If you don’t know what grave hunting is, there is a crash course in the intro of our previous post on Lake View Cemetery in Seattle. And I know it’s two days due because last Saturday was Halloween and [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Eye Prefer Paris Contest: Montmartre
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 4 November 2009
Dalida grave at Montmartre Cemetery I have been doing tours of Montmartre lately and it inspired a new contest. From the Moulin Rouge to Sacre Coeur, to the majestic views of the city below, to the windy streets frequented by...
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Fall Foliage in the Marais
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 3 November 2009
When I lived in New York I would have to go to either Central Park or upstate New York to see the fall foliage. Luckily in Paris I just had to walk down the street near my apartment in the...
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Classical Paris: Music for the Fall
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 2 November 2009
You may know of the hazy jazz dungeons in the 5ème, and scene-y indie rock clubs in the 20ème, but don’t forget about classical music! Vingt Paris’ David Britain fills us in on classical music concerts, ballets, and operas you won’t want to miss in Paris this fall.
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Green and Groovy Eats in Paris
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 2 November 2009
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November Eye Need to Do's: BNP Paribas Tennis Masters, Deadline and Joe Allen's Thanksgiving Dinner
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 2 November 2009
Deadline A exhibition about dead artists who knew they were dying may sound morbid but Deadline is actually quite moving. Inspirational works by 13 artists including Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Felix Torres-Gonzalez chronicle the last days...
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Diary of a Working Mom
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 2 November 2009
Even with her faux pas, La Mom has returned to work in Paris and is loving it.
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76-Second Travel Show: "Travel Magazine Olympics (Oct/Nov)"
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 1 November 2009
Episode #006F E A T U R I N G * 44 * B O N U S * S E C O N D SWe understand the time constraints on your life. We understand, too, you like to dream. That's why SSTS has poured through five travel magazines for the October/November 2009 period and picked out the three best contributions for you to read.
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The Art of Being a French Woman
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 30 October 2009
Having grown up in the American Northeast, Dani Baron has seen more than her fair share of cold winters. So she's no stranger to all the seasonal bearing of scarves and hats—the accessories necessary to staying warm when temperatures plummet. But during the two years she lived in Paris, Dani felt like “a complete failure in the winter fashion department,” as she recalls.
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Halloween in Paris
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 30 October 2009
Paris celebrates Halloween in a much milder manner than the U.S. Festivities this year include a Tim Burton film festival with a showing of Beetlejuice, Halloween night at Euro Disney, and of course The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Below are...
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A Day at Paris’ Les Puces: Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen
Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 29 October 2009
If you’re a lover of flea markets, then you’ll definitely want to make a trip out to Les Puces, the world’s largest flea market. With over 3,000 stands and between 1,00,000- 200,000 visitors each weekend, Les Puces has enough antiques, pictures, collectibles, furniture and second-hand clothes to make just about anyone happy. There’s also some history behind it, as it is often considered to be the world’s first flea market, beginning in the 17th Century.
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An Eco Saturday in Paris
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 29 October 2009
