The Paris Traveler

Awhile back, I wrote a post about a gem of a website, The Little Bookroom, which features beautiful volumes devoted to travel, food, wine, shopping and equally beautiful journals that easily inspire one to jot down thoughts that could be a future title on this charming site.
  Previously, I mentioned a book by Gilles Pudlowski, Pudlo Paris, a guide to all that is yummy in Paris–restaurants, bars, cafés and gourmet shops.  A foodie’s Paris bible if there ever was one.
Now, Mr. Pudlowski has taken his show on the road.  Pudlo France,  just out last month, is a comprehensive journey through the entire country, …read more

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Sadly, I have just finished reading the latest adventures of David Sedaris, author of When You Are Engulfed In Flames.   I say sadly because I laugh harder than I usually do when I read about the misadventures of he and his partner, Hugh, as they traverse the world.  Actually, Hugh has few misadventures.  It is Mr. Sedaris that finds himself doing banal, daily things like smoking cigarettes or visiting a doctor’s office, as we all must once in awhile, however,  all hell breaks loose for this author and the mundane becomes hilarious.
These events would not be half as funny …read more

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 As you may or may not know, us bloggers have our wily ways of discovering certain things about our blogs:  readership for the day, popular posts, where in the world some of our readers come from and which bloggers have linked to one of our posts in order to make a point or add extra information to their post.  Tuesday, The Paris Traveler was linked to an article and I am going to send you right back there!
Alexander Lobrano is the European correspondent for Gourmet magazine–can you say “dream job”??? Oh my goodness.  Eating my way through Europe and then writing …read more

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 Enjoy your Sunday reading.
 

 The Mission: Soufflé (more intelligent life.com)
 Hot Spring in Paris (chow.com)
 France Too Expensive This Summer? (webinfrance)
 WorldWise Quiz: Paris (nationalgeographic.com)
 Youth Avoiding Wine in France (indianwineacademy.com)

Photo credit:  Personal collection

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 Here’s this week’s installment of quality reading of all things French, or not, while you curl up with your computer screen, a cup of coffee and a croissant.   

Hookah bars in Paris fight smoking ban (iht.com) 
10 Sizzling Hot Travel Tips From Sir Francis Bacon (worldhum.com)
‘He who eats alone is dead’ (theglobeandmail.com)
No Quasimodo, He Brings Music to Notre-Dame Bells (nytimes.com)
Pfaff:  Aux armes, citoyens (iht.com)

Photo credit:  flickr, colodio

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As I sit here with a cup of coffee and various newspapers on a sunny, Sunday morning, not in a hurry to do anything in particular,  I have decided to stick to the little ritual of sending you off to other parts of the web so you can leisurely read through some interesting articles about all the goings on in France.  If I think something is amazingly interesting but has nothing to do with France, I am sending you there anyway just to be amazed.

 Villages fight over champagne  (telegraph.co.uk)
 Cohen:  Wine, haste and religion (iht.com)
 Prunes:  Better than chocolates in Paris (chicagotribune.com)
 How not to …read more

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Even in Paris…..little girls dream of happy ever after! 

 
Photo credits: webshots 

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Oodles has been written about French women–their philosophy on life,  how they achieve that “I just got out of bed, forgot to run a comb through my hair, found a top that just happens to fall off my shoulders in just the right way and I may or may not have makeup on but no one will ever know” look that is pretty hard for many of us to accurately copy.  But they do it so well and up until a few years ago, how it was done was a tightly guarded secret.  That is until one of “them” decided …read more

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Today is one of those days where what I am writing has nothing to do with Paris but is something that I really want to bring to your awareness–just in case you need to be made aware.
 In 1994 the gentleman you see here, Jon Kabatt Zinn published, Wherever You Go, There You Are:Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life.  It’s a fascinating book that outlines a simple path on how to become more aware, attuned, mindful–whatever you want to call it to each moment in your life. Sort of opening yourself up to the “silence” inside your head instead of listening to all the …read more

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is a tiny gem of a website dedicated to selling beautifully photographed and bound books about travel to numerous places around the world, France just being one of them. In addition to these tiny masterpieces of which all are in my personal library, they have taken what appears to be great pains in “curating” a beautiful collection of journals, note cards and literary essays. 

 If you are planning a trip to Paris, I would highly recommend Pudlo Paris written by Frenchman Gilles Pudlowski.  For the first time in its 17 year history it has been translated into English which is a blessing for …read more

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