The Paris Traveler

May 11th, 2008

Café Dimanche

 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)

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May 4th, 2008

Café Dimanche

 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: […]

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April 27th, 2008

Café Dimanche

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 […]

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April 22nd, 2008

Cendrillon

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

 
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April 15th, 2008

What Is It About French Women?

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 […]

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April 4th, 2008

Wherever You Go, There You Are (Hopefully, It’s Paris)

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. […]

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April 1st, 2008

The Little Bookroom

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 […]

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March 13th, 2008

Ants in My Pants

Lately, all I can think about is travel.  Yes, going to Paris is one of my favorite destinations but there is a great big world out there and I really want to take it all in.  Impatiently I plan in my head where I want to go next–certainly Argentina and Chile are high on my […]

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January 13th, 2008

Clairefontaine vs Rhodia

The title sounds like some big heavy weight fight being held in some casino in Las Vegas, but really it is a much gentler battle between–notebooks!  Back to school shopping is a big deal in our house.  We all love buying new pens, pencils, folders and notebooks.  A new semester starting this past week meant new […]

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January 3rd, 2008

Ex Libris

 
 Books–could not love them more.   I usually have two going at the same time.  One comes with me wherever I go and one sits on my bedside table waiting to help me unwind from a crazy day.  All topics make my list of what to read but I would have to admit that over […]

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