There was the Open Tour and the Galeries Lafayette red bus tours, now there’s Foxity, the budget option for double-decker bus tours of Paris: top deck adult tickets are €12, students under 25 and seniors over 65 are €10, and kids under 12 are free (one per paying adult). You can also opt for the [...]

If you come to Paris, do pay a visit to “Le musée de l’histoire de la médecine” a very interesting museum you can find in the former Medicine Faculty, in the heart of the Latin Quarter. It’s fascinating to see the old instruments, the dummies and the odd tools they have used to cure people [...]

This is not a new subject in my blogs… The sun has been taking a big ole dump on my outdoor plans for quite a while now. If the degree of my whiteness is any indicator, we are currently at code ALBINO, (ALERT! ALERT! Entering sunlight may cause spontaneous combustion!), and I feel like that burning ball [...]

The Lone Wolf and I slipped onto the TGV and sat down in our single seats facing each other in the First Class car. We were escaping from Paris. Yes, even though it’s pleasure to live here one still needs to get out of town. And it was a fast 46-minute train ride to Vendome [...]

Let me introduce you to… Santa Rita, the Patron Saint of the lost causes! I found her church by coincidence in the 15th arrondissement. The church in itself is not really spectacular, but the story is. It claims to belong to the Church of France better known as Gallicane, a church that accepts the Vatican [...]

Just in case you can’t afford the latest haute couture (the shows end today), Paris has the perfect quick fix for any fashion fanatic. Even if you have already drooled over the YSL retrospective, you’ll find yet more vintage style at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. There, until October 10, you can view the best of [...]

Saturday night, we decided to skip staying home on the couch to watch the U.S.-Ghana soccer match and instead headed out to Versailles to see the evening fountain spectacular. On Saturday nights during the summer, the gardens are not so much transformed as embellished with music, lights, fire features, and choreography, and it all ends [...]

As Paris welcomes the Japan Expo, we’re celebrating all things Japanese in the capital, from food to fashion. The Japan Expo is an international festival of traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, from music, dance, art and crafts to manga, anime and video games. The Young Designers Village showcases the latest in fashion inspired by the Far [...]

La Tour Eiffel, that instantly recognizable industrial mirage, was never intended to stay. Built as a temporary installation for the Exposition Universelle of 1889 to stun, outrage and amaze, this flight of fancy has become an indelible symbol of it’s birthplace. Across town in another controversial construction, the Pompidou Center museum show Dreamlands explores the [...]

Want to see Paris in a really special way? I recommend the ultimate in summer touring—via a Citroën Deux Chevaux, or 2CV. Engineered by Pierre-Jules Boulanger, and first produced in 1949 but last manufactured in the 1990s, these beloved cars are mythic. The enterprising company 4 Roues sous 1 parapluie (Four Wheels under an Umbrella) takes its [...]