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Parisian of the Month: Francesca Hanak
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 28 June 2011
One of the highlights of visiting Le Motte Picquet/Grenelle food market during my Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes is having Francesca Hanak select cheeses for me. She always has such a pretty smile and terrific recommendations for our cheese course...
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A Scavenger Hunt in the Louvre by Paris Muse
Blog: Ciao Bambino! - 27 June 2011
“I’m booking that scavenger hunt in the Louvre for the Paris trip” is the snippet of a conversation I overheard at my son’s elementary school a month ago. That "scavenger hunt” turned out to be the Paris Muse Clues: A Louvre Tour for Young Treasure Hunters. It’s a private guided family tour of the Louvre. The Louvre is the world’s largest museum and it can be overwhelming trying to figure out ...
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Eye Prefer Paris 5th Anniversary
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 27 June 2011
Yesterday, June 26, 2011 was the 5th anniversary of Eye Prefer Paris. Here was my first post from 2006: About This Blog This blog is about how a native New Yorker dreamed of moving to Paris …… and what he...
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From Barcelona to St. Cyprien, with a Pit Stop in Girona
Blog: Fourteen months, four countries, and three kids - Tales from the Field - 26 June 2011
On Saturday, we left Barcelona to go to St. Cyprien, France. We thought we would stop in Girona on the way, as I have heard it is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain. I am very glad we decided to stop.
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Diner en Blanc 4
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 23 June 2011
My new friend Mark Pendell is quite the man about Paris, always being invited to the best and exclusive parties and events. But please make note, that Mark is a really nice, down to earth guy. Here are some notes...
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25 Major Cultural Differences Between France and America
Blog: Video Diary of an American in France - 22 June 2011
Now that I’ve lived in France for three years, I have some interesting observations about the HUGE differences between France and America. Most of these differences I would not have expected before coming, when I was seeing things as a tourist or outsider. I have actually been surprised by them. I won’t address the obvious [...]
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Meredith Mullins: The Promise of Adventure
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 22 June 2011
What I love about Paris is that each day promises adventure. A story is destined to unfold. There is never a script - only converging circumstances and a cast of characters auditioning to bring warmth and interest to our life....
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Kings of Pastry
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 21 June 2011
Kings of Pastry is a riveting, moving, and sometimes heartbreaking documentary about the competition for one of most honored prizes in France, The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France. Awarded every four years,The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France is a prize awarded to...
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Eye Prefer Paris Happy 5th Anniversary Party
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 20 June 2011
I can't believe Eye Prefer Paris will be five years old on June 26th. It seems like yesterday I innocently started this blog to share some fun insider Paris tips with you. Five years later and 932 posts later, it...
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Lille Book Market
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 19 June 2011
Young and old people walked about quietly through the courtyard and the passages around it, rummaging through old books and secondhand magazines, old photographs, posters and records. For us, it was a different book landscape than we were used to. The graphics were different, the text was different. Here and there in-between was a text that was familiar, an artist’s work that you had read about before or seen earlier.
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5 Things About France
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 17 June 2011
Having published 600 posts, now, once in a while I start wondering if perhaps the readers of today’s blog post may have missed something from the past that I think they might like. So I’m going to do a little reviewing from time to time. Starting with 5 things I learned about 5 different parts [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library. We'll leave a light on for you.
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Afternoon in Senlis II
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 16 June 2011
Senlis was discovered by the Romans in the second century and was known as Augustomagus and later as Civitas Silvanectium ("City of the Silvanectes"). In the third century a stone wall was built around the city to protect it and...
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Chambery, France City Walk ITunes Application Now Available
Blog: Video Diary of an American in France - 15 June 2011
If you have an IPhone or IPod and are planning a visit to Chambery, buy my ITunes App. Install it on your IPhone or IPod and it will walk you through the city of Chambery to each historic landmark with walking directions, history, a map, and narrative. It’s just $2.99. I was approached by [...]
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Top Attractions in Paris, by District
Blog: WildJunket - 15 June 2011
This is a sponsored guest post by Andrew Minh. For your next trip to Paris why not try a little serendipity? Find a district and start wandering around.
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Afternoon in Senlis I
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 15 June 2011
I don't have many friends in Paris who have cars, so when my friend Pascal got a new convertible and asked me to go to Senlis for the day with him, I said yes in a nano-second. Senlis is a...
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Parisian Dessert of the Month: Brownie Deluxe from Lola's Cookies
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 14 June 2011
I was at an event for Yelp! the other night that had many small Paris food vendors hawking their wares with free samples of their various foods. I was hungry as it was near dinner time and I ravaged for...
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Jean-Pierre Pincemin Sculptures at Galerie Dutko
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 13 June 2011
My friend Lynn turned me on the Dutko Gallery next door to her on the Ile- St. Louis last year and it has become my favorite contemporary gallery in Paris. They consistently show exquisite work, mostly sculpture and paintings by...
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Musee du Vigneron – Wine Musueum of Savoie
Blog: Video Diary of an American in France - 11 June 2011
This week I have been leading our French Alps Tours. We have an intimate group of guests and are enjoying showing them the beauty and grandeur of the French Alps region. On Wednesday we spent part of the afternoon wine tasting in Savoie. We did our wine tasting at the Chateau Lucey but there are [...]
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Sophisticated Rockers – Have you been here?
Blog: Vagobond.com - 9 June 2011
Before I started traveling, Bordeaux simply meant wine that I probably couldn't afford.
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Staircases at Hotel de Beauvais
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 9 June 2011
Hotel de Beauvais is one of the grandest of the former Marais palaces. Built in 1658 for the former lady-in-waiting for Queen Anne of Austria, the magnificent limestone structure is a stop on all my Marais tours. The story behind...
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Cheap, Quick Eats: Candelaria
Blog: I Prefer Paris - 8 June 2011
Ethnic restaurants are abundant in Paris with Vietnamese, Lebanese, Thai, Moroccan, Indian, and Ethiopian food well represented but for some reason real Mexican food has been a bust, with a handful of restaurants not worth mentioning. In fact whenever I...
