From l’apéritif en terrasse to the early-morning croissant on the way home, what’s not to love about the Parisian social life?
Moderation: Boire avec modération (drink with moderation) is your mantra for socializing in Paris. France may be one of the biggest wine producers and consumers in the world, but the French pride themselves on enjoying [...]

Back in 1857, in the years following the foundation of the Bois de Boulogne as a public park, a small open-air theatre, the Théâtre de Fleurs, was founded.
Over the following century the theatre encountered various problems with heightened competition and fell in to disrepair with the arrival of the WWI. Fortunately though, there remains [...]

I have a new card in play this year…..THE PREGNANT CARD. It took me a few months to really feel comfortable using this one but as I waited sheepishly in line after line, I was scolded by at least a dozen Parisian women (all over 50) who would look at me with the most scornful and [...]

In France, unless it says décortiqué (peeled/shelled) on the menu next to your shrimp, it’s going to come the way that the majority of the French eat it: with the head and legs still attached (but, merci dieu, not moving). I was eating last week with a lovely family when the gambas (giant shrimp) dish [...]

If you’ve ever been to the South of France, I’m sure you were as impressed as I was with the starring role that the humble olive plays in the culture down there. Olive trees seem to grow wherever you look- not just in groves and gardens, but in schoolyards, along roads and even in supermarket [...]

Summer is here to stay, so what better idea than to scour Paris’s mysteries and lost nooks and crannies in a race against time? This Saturday 3rd July, the capital will be transformed into an urban playground full of treasure seekers, marking the start of the annual Great Paris Treasure Hunt. Organised by the City [...]

The news on Saturday in Paris was… the annual Gay Pride parade.

Each year, la Fête de la Musique is something to love, and this year I had the impression that more people participated in the event than ever before. Of course, that may have had something to do with the teenage rave that went on outside my window until well past midnight.
Early on in the evening, [...]

Many of my Paris-based wedding clients are Franco-American couples, and in planning their multi-cultural weddings, one sort of tricky topic that invariably comes up is the issue of the money box.  In the U.S., while money boxes (or card boxes, as they are now more delicately called) can still be found at lots of weddings, there [...]