Can’t get enough images of Paris in the recent snowfall? Here’s a fantastic album.

Here’s a rare site–a snowman! Thanks to Rue Rude for this wonderful picture taken on rue Bonaparte.

Skiing… the word conjures up images of log cabins, exhilarating days, and warm nights spent by blazing fires. There is nothing better than whizzing down a piste in the company of family and friends, or enjoying the camaraderie and laughs of ski school. Arguably, the best skiing available in Europe is to be had in [...]

What better way is there to soak up the remains of summer than with a visit to a romantic grade? Around the corner from me is a fairy-tale type castle with a most beautiful formal French garden and I thought I would share it with you before fall sets in. The Hotel de Sens was [...]

There are over 400 parks and sites in Paris with free wifi. A complete listing of them by arrondissement may be found here.

I’ve seen pictures of the city on various blogs over the years, and have always wanted to visit. There is the beautiful lake filled with the clearest water I have ever seen in France – and coming from the Land of 10,000 Lakes myself, proximity to water is important to me. We arrived at about [...]

The oldest tree in Paris stands in one of it’s most touristic areas, but how many of the city’s visitors take a second glance at it as they walk past? It stands in the Square René-Viviani–Montebello, alongside the even more ancient Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre church (and opposite Notre Dame). Unlike the Toronto tree – which apparently was [...]

For all the city dwellers who can’t make it out of town to spend their summer on a beach, or for the travelers who got a hot deal on a Paris vacation only to find the town mostly deserted during the month of August, our fair city has created an annual tradition to help beat [...]

Paris’ annual open air cinema festival at the vast modernist La Villette park – one of the greatest annual summer events in the city – started last night and runs through August 26. This year’s theme of “Metamorphosis” unites a varied program of films ranging from Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep to the German indy filmGoodbye, Lenin! to Ken [...]

Dreaming of swimming in the Seine River? If you hurry and sign up now, you can join in the Traversée de Paris à la Nage on September 2nd. Inscriptions are being accepted (but almost full!) to swim either 10k or 2.5k in the Seine past all of the glorious monuments of the city. There’s also [...]