In Paris instead of seeing large rats hanging out down by the subway tracks I’m more likely to see little mice instead which are not nearly as ugly or threatening as their NYC counterparts.
This morning however, everything changed and a barrier was crossed. As I sat enjoying my commute to work as best as I [...]

 
I had a call the other night from Jon Henley of the Guardian, who had reviewed my book and wanted to talk about a piece he was writing about French women. It seems there has been a sudden onslaught of books on the subject, some of them written by Anglo-Saxon women driven by the question: what do they have that we [...]

Despite a good experience that some of you may have had with Parisians, they still have the reputation of often being short, rude, and self absorbed–even among Parisians themselves! Up to a point that Le Parisien, the only local paper, uses this fact it in its advertisement. The one going on at the moment says: “Le [...]

According to the OECD, the French spend more time eating and sleeping than people from any other wealthy country. The eating part isn’t that surprising (although I thought the Spanish or Italians would be at the top), but as far as the sleeping – I’m clearly missing out on this aspect of living in France. [...]

I have noticed something unusual…or maybe not, about the French and their use of old names to countries or cities and not the said country’s desired change of name. For example: I know in the USA, we now refer to the large Indian capital city as Mumbai, not Bombay, which it was called for hundreds [...]