Paris
Paris Minute: Velib Bike Love
A Paris Minute: Paris Plage
The beach, in Paris? Mais oui!
Following in Sylvia’s Footsteps to Paris
In 1919, young American Sylvia Beach moved to Paris and opened a bookshop, Shakespeare and Company. She’d been to Europe with her family as a girl and as a young adult, yearned to live in Paris.
When I read about this pioneer in Noel Riley Fitch’s Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, I found a female role model for living an unconventional life. A bookish woman who moves to Paris to live a literary existence – that’s my kind of heroine.
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Three Days in Paris
I am often asked what to do with three days in Paris. I’m not a tour guide and I don’t have hotel recommendations, but I can share some tips on how I like to enjoy the City of Lights. Try this:
First thing, after checking into your lodgings, is to hit the city. If you’ve got three days only, it’s your duty to soak up as much as possible. Jet lag be damned. [Read more…] about Three Days in Paris