When America’s David Sedaris decided to move to Paris, it was to learn the language. What ensued was a hilarious insight into the illusive capital, whose truth is sometimes eclipsed by those lights for which it is so famous.
Paris can feel like a thousand cities in one, like it is turning faster than the cars that zoom around and around the round about at Arc de Triomphe. Slow it down a little, and take Paris step by stunning step along its famed avenues and boulevards.
Paris can feel like a thousand cities in one; like it is turning faster than the cars that zoom around and around the roundabout at Arc de Triomphe. Slow it down a little, and take Paris step by stunning step along its famed avenues and boulevards with part deux of the decadent stroll through Paris.
A trip to Paris can be overwhelming. Cease your fretting, and take the French capital one decadent step at a time. Join me for part trois of this tour de decadence into the very decadent 6th arrondissement.
A trip past an Australian primary school sparks a memory of French school fashion for one ex Parisian expat. Find out what she discovered when she first peered behind the gates of a French primary school.
So read the telegram that Sylvia Beach, founder of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, sent to her mother. These were the humble beginnings of a bookstore known the world over and coveted by book fiends who flock to the store on Paris’s Left Bank to explore its dusty shelves.
The local food market is a French tradition. Come Sunday morning, you can be sure that in every town, village and arrondissement, stalls will be set up and patrons will arrive with baskets in hand.
The world is inundated with the glitz and glamour of Gatsby fever but it is neither Baz, nor Leonardo we have to thank for the beautiful prose transformed into box office hit, but a French ex-pat named Francis.
After much debate from parents, teachers and politicians, French children may be returning to school two weeks earlier than usual after this year’s summer holidays, and can possibly look forward to more school days, and less holidays.
Behind the rousing band, the twirling frocks and dramatic ballads ‘Baby et Lulu’ are simply two Francophiles living out their French fantasies to adoring crowds. “This band is really the culmination of my greatest loves! Music, harmony and French.”
Come with us to experience French life beyond the cliché.
Magazine – Events – Experiences
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