The Paris Traveler

This is a guest post from Mary Jo Manzanares, Travel & Culture Channel Editor and blogger at Flyaway Cafe
 
Bateaux Parisiens is a cruise company that conducts sightseeing, lunch, and dinner cruises on the Seine, along with operating a river-boat shuttle called Batobus.
I opted for an evening sightseeing cruise, and for an hour we cruised the Seine while the hostess pointed out a number of attractions.  The commentary was pleasant and informative, and not filled with the typical puns and drivel that you so often get on tours.
Schedules vary, but details and information can easily be found in the city.  …read more

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 Walking through the Tuileries gardens is a part of each day that I spend in Paris.  I plan my route so that I can enjoy all it has to offer either on my way to where I am going, on my return or both.  That’s how much I enjoy being here.  It is always crowded,  but especially so on weekends when residents and tourists literally “promenade” the gravelly through fare.  I love trying to picture what it must have been like at the turn of the century, much like the movie “Gigi” with carriages, and picnics and flirtations.  All those …read more

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     I have been meaning to share this and kept forgetting.  This is what greets me each morning as my computer kicks into gear and I get my day going.  It’s a web cam that is perched on top of Trocodero pointing sort of  west (I did not come into this world armed with a great sense of direction).  That dome that you see in the background is L’Eglise de St-Louis-des-Invalides, a beautiful church that is a part of a complex of museums devoted to the military history of France.  It is home to the tomb of Napoleon, which …read more

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 When I took over this blog, I brainstormed ways in which I could keep up with daily entries and give you new and interesting things to read about.   As a result, I decided to launch a weekly feature to see how much you know about some of the sights, customs and history regarding Paris and then provide you with the answer and some useful information that might inspire you to visit a particular place, try a certain delicacy or maybe just fill you with new knowledge.  Get out your number 2 pencils and let’s see what you’ve got. (no …read more

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